MAGIC WITH A MESSAGE: The Poetics of Christian Conjuring

This article examines the performance practices of U.S. gospel magicians, evangelical Christians who convey religious messages with conjuring tricks. Emphatically denying that they possess supernatural powers and scrupulously avoiding effects that resemble biblical miracles, they take pains to prese...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Graham M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82013
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6435-7066