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Rethinking religion, magic and witchcraft in South Africa: From colonial coherence to postcolonial conundrum [PDF]
Journal for the Study of Religion, 2015 Religion, magic and witchcraft are conceptual, socially constructed categories, the boundaries of which have been contested under diverse religious, cultural and intellectual conditions in the west.
Dale Wallace
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Wicked Labels, and the Power of Narrative in Mental Health Nursing
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, EarlyView.
Michael Haslam +3 more
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Prophetic promise: the lineal return of ‘lopp'd branches’ in Shakespeare's Cymbeline
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative power of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare's ...
Rana Banna
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The household book is a particular feature of the landscape of manuscript production post‐1475, and is particularly associated with women. Compiling manuscript household books in a post‐print landscape involved a specific kind of dialogue between the two material forms.
Carrie Griffin
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Science and Justice: The Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials [PDF]
, 1969 James Laurie, Sanford J. Fox
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Magia, brujería y violencia en Colombia.
Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2003 This article discusses the relationship between magic, witchcraft, cure, and contemporary Colombian social conflict. Based on an ethnographic study of a clinical case of mental sickness, the argument seeks to show how a situation of social conflict and ...
Carlos Alberto Uribe.
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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