This fascinating study looks at how the seemingly incompatible forces of science, magic, and religion came together in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries to for
A History of Science, Magic and Belief is an exploration of the origins of modern society through the culture of the middle ages and early modern period. By exa
From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, Mark A. Waddel
Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion an