Book description
Note: Formerly published as an ebook titled "Why People Believe in Spirits, Gods and Magic." Now also available in paperback. Across the globe and through time, diverse cultures have developed elaborate systems for understanding and interacting with strange forces and invisible beings. Since the nineteenth century anthropologists have theorised about…
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1 author picked Spirits, Gods and Magic as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This work is an excellent introduction to the less explored intersections between parapsychology and the social sciences. For anyone new to any of the topics discussed here, such as shamanism, mediumship, history of religion, psychology, magic, and so on, this book also serves as an introductory yet helpfully comprehensive primer there too. It comes highly recommended for anyone interested in the connections between the psychical experiences collected by the likes of the anthropologist during his or her fieldwork and those we still encounter among our contemporaries today.
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