Ritual Embodiment in Modern Western Magic - Lycourinos, Damon Zacharias
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Starting with an introduction to the study of magic in the Western academy, the book then presents the author's own participant observation of five ethnographic case studies of modern Western magic. It concludes by discussing the phenomenological implications and issues around embodiment that are inherent to the contemporary practice of magic.

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Starting with an introduction to the study of magic in the Western academy, the book then presents the author's own participant observation of five ethnographic case studies of modern Western magic. It concludes by discussing the phenomenological implications and issues around embodiment that are inherent to the contemporary practice of magic.
Autorenporträt
Damon Zacharias Lycourinos completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he also acted as an instructor in Religious Studies. His main areas of interest are the study of ritual from the perspective of embodied cognition, subjectivity, and self-narrative; the concept of 'spirituality in the flesh'; and a phenomenological consideration of the subtle dimensions of religious experience.