Lands of misfortune, man, religion and magic.
Jerome Millon| N° d'inventaire | 25670 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 238 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Grenoble, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782841373994 |
In the history of Western culture, theology and science, there is a strict dichotomy between religion and magic: religion as intellectually and morally superior – magic as the primitive, superstitious, demonic other. The work seeks to rehabilitate the notion of magic often described in opposition to religion, always presenting positive characteristics of a morality, elevated, disinterested, spiritual, structured while magic is always presented in a caricatured way with the opposite negative characteristics, popular, naive, incoherent, ignorant, selfish, mysterious…
The author goes through the works of the first anthropologists (Frazer or Mauss), in search of the origin of these commonplaces and traces among Western historians of religion the ideological scope implicitly maintained in this too opposed couple religion/magic .
In the history of Western culture, theology and science, there is a strict dichotomy between religion and magic: religion as intellectually and morally superior – magic as the primitive, superstitious, demonic other. The work seeks to rehabilitate the notion of magic often described in opposition to religion, always presenting positive characteristics of a morality, elevated, disinterested, spiritual, structured while magic is always presented in a caricatured way with the opposite negative characteristics, popular, naive, incoherent, ignorant, selfish, mysterious…
The author goes through the works of the first anthropologists (Frazer or Mauss), in search of the origin of these commonplaces and traces among Western historians of religion the ideological scope implicitly maintained in this too opposed couple religion/magic .