In the Study of the Witch: Women, Shadows, and the Academic Study of Religions

In the Study of the Witch: Women, Shadows, and the Academic Study of Religions

This article examines historically competing categories of magic and religion and their gendered traces in the history of religious studies. On one hand, we have a genealogy that traces the term, “magic”, back to an early modern European Christianity trying to understand itself through contrast with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laurel Zwissler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-04-01
Series:Religions
Subjects:
gender
women’s spirituality
witchcraft
anthropology
early modern Europe
matriarchy
prehistory
feminism
magic
cultural evolution
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/4/105

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