Magic as the local application of authoritative tradition
This chapter examines the relationship of magic and religion itself. Magic describes the invocation and deployment of an authoritative tradition in a local performative context through the creative agency of a ritual expert and involving various ritual media. After a review of Redfield’s notion of a...
Nebentitel: | Dimensions of a category magic |
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2019
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Guide to the study of ancient magic
Jahr: 2019, Seiten: 720-745 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This chapter examines the relationship of magic and religion itself. Magic describes the invocation and deployment of an authoritative tradition in a local performative context through the creative agency of a ritual expert and involving various ritual media. After a review of Redfield’s notion of a “little tradition” that draws on a “great tradition” and a comparative discussion of various ways a great tradition emerges locally as a kind of magic, the chapter turns to more problematic cases: iconography with magical functions, interpretations of scripture as concretely efficacious, the nature of ritual expertise in the mediation of a great tradition, magic deriving from invented great traditions, and magic deriving from historically/institutionally defunct great traditions. |
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ISBN: | 9004390758 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Guide to the study of ancient magic
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004390751_028 |