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Religion and Magic is a survey summarising the approaches taken to religion and magic by the principal scholars in the proceeding and present centuries

Includes bibliographical references and index

pt. 1. German pioneers. Hegel. Marx. Weber -- pt. 2. Early intellectualist approaches. Spencer. Tylor. Frazer -- pt. 3. Emotionalist approaches. Marett. Freud and psychoanalysis. Malinowski and functionalism -- pt. 4. Phenomenological approaches. Otto. Jung and analytical psychology. Eliade. Smart -- pt. 5. Structural-functional approaches. Durkheim. Mauss. Radcliffe-Brown. Evans-Pritchard. Related distinctions between religion and magic -- pt. 6. Symbolic approaches. Lévy-Bruhl. Van Gennep. Douglas. Beattie. Turner. Tambiah. Geertz -- pt. 7. Recent intellectualist approaches. Goody. Jarvie. Horton. Skorupski -- pt. 8. Structural approaches. Leach. Lévi-Strauss. Godelier and structural Marxism -- pt. 9. Cognitive approaches. Sperber. Lawson and McCauley. Boyer -- pt. 10. Feminist approaches. Kristeva. Daly

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