Ariel Glucklich is Assistant Professor at Ponoma College and Lecturer at the Hebrew University to which he received a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship.
"The reader experiences...a sensible and engaging argument, taking
off from a series of humanly gripping anecdotes, that actually
confronts the sorts of questions that ordinary rational and
not-so-rational people have about magic. This book should be of
great value in undergraduate courses on religion, anthropology, and
popular culture."--Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago
"Like a boddhisattva, Glucklich succeeds in 'tricking' his reader
into enlightenment, in this case into opening young minds to
cutting edge social sciences theory and methodology as well as to a
number of fundamental questions that ritual, belief, and yes,
magic, pose for the fields of philosophy and religious
studies."--David G. White, University of Virginia
"The reader experiences...a sensible and engaging argument, taking
off from a series of humanly gripping anecdotes, that actually
confronts the sorts of questions that ordinary rational and
not-so-rational people have about magic. This book should be of
great value in undergraduate courses on religion, anthropology, and
popular culture."--Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago
"Like a boddhisattva, Glucklich succeeds in 'tricking' his reader
into enlightenment, in this case into opening young minds to
cutting edge social sciences theory and methodology as well as to a
number of fundamental questions that ritual, belief, and yes,
magic, pose for the fields of philosophy and religious
studies."--David G. White, University of Virginia
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