Ritual Embodiment in Modern Western Magic: Becoming the Magician
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: interpreting the modern practice of Western magic -- A theoretical reflection on the study of modern Western magic -- A methodological approach to the study of modern Western magic -- 1 Western constructions of magic -- 1.1...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
Taylor and Francis
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series/Journal: | Gnostica
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Magic
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Lycourinos, Damon Zacharias: Ritual Embodiment in Modern Western Magic : Becoming the Magician. - Milton : Taylor and Francis,c2017. - 9781138574175 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: interpreting the modern practice of Western magic -- A theoretical reflection on the study of modern Western magic -- A methodological approach to the study of modern Western magic -- 1 Western constructions of magic -- 1.1 Origins of the anthropology of magic -- 1.2 Western esotericism and modern magic -- 1.3 Strategies of legitimation in modern magic -- 1.4 Modern magic as a participatory worldview -- 1.5 Magical consciousness as a cognitive shift -- 1.6 Debates on modern magic and altering phenomenal properties of consciousness -- 2 Liber V vel Reguli -- 2.1 The foundation -- 2.2 The ritual -- 3 The Ninth Key of Gabriel and Levaniel -- 3.1 The foundation -- 3.2 The ritual -- 4 The Blessing of WÅÄanaz -- 4.1 The foundation -- 4.2 The ritual -- 5 The Apollonian invocation -- 5.1 The foundation -- 5.2 The ritual -- 6 The Mithras Liturgy -- 6.1 The foundation -- 6.2 The ritual -- 7 Anthropology of ritual and the body in modern Western magic -- 7.1 Magic and ritual -- 7.2 Ritual as performance and mediation -- 7.3 Practice of ritualisation of the body -- 7.4 Merleau-Ponty, body techniques, and the ritual habitus -- 7.5 Ritual embodiment and metaphysics -- 8 Phenomenology of ritual in modern Western magic -- 8.1 Mundane and magical worldviews -- 8.2 Ritual entextualisation -- 8.3 Ritual communication -- 8.4 Ritual reverberations -- 8.5 Ritual embodiment -- 9 Phenomenology of the body in modern Western magic -- 9.1 Becoming the magician -- 9.2 Reimagination and reinvention of the magician -- 9.3 Phenomenal field of the magician -- 9.4 Phenomenology of perception and embodiment -- 9.5 Body image and body schema -- 9.6 Modern Western magic as a somatic mode of attention -- 9.7 Embodied pragmatics of becoming the magician 10 Ritualisation and the subtle body in modern Western magic -- 10.1 Subtle dynamics -- 10.2 Ethnographic representations of the subtle -- 10.3 Subtle embodiment and imaginal perception -- Conclusion: becoming the magician and the logic of Western magical ritual -- Bibliography |
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| ISBN: | 1351329952 |