{"title":"Secrecy: Silence, Power, and Religion by Hugh B. Urban","authors":"Dmitry Galtsin","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48611694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies by Erik Davis","authors":"Matt Southey","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2023.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2023.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47633561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials: Northern Europe by Liv Helene Willumsen (review)","authors":"Julie Fox-Horton","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2022.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2022.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"17 1","pages":"340 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47948741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Divination and Magic: Manipulating the Divine ed. by Jesper Sørensen and Anders Klostergaard Petersen (review)","authors":"V. Baptista","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2022.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2022.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"17 1","pages":"337 - 340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49240965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
with close attention to ancient sources, and although the answers are ultimately unknowable their investigation is important. The book’s throughlines are: first, the use and manipulation of scent in ancient magical rituals; and, secondly, the ways in which scent’s physical characteristics make it a useful mental model for the physical operation of magic. The question is posted as to how scent can be knowable and understandable, and can yet, at times, simultaneously avoid clear definition and description. Ager comments on how, in a magical context, “scent becomes a nonverbal technique similar to Tambiah’s idea of persuasive analogy” (27). An important consideration in this regard is the invasive nature of scent: it is invisible and does not really have a physical reality and yet it penetrates private spaces as well as the body and causes an effect (and an affect). This idea is particularly drawn out in sections which focus on the use of scent by witches and women more generally. On the other hand, the analysis of the second relationship between scent and magic, that of the “mental model,” could have been explored in much greater depth, though it remains an interesting theoretical contribution. Given the chronological and geographical scope of the work and the variety of topics covered, more time could have been taken in drawing together overall conclusions. There are, however, good concluding discussions at the end of each constituent chapter.
{"title":"The End(s) of Time(s): Apocalypticism, Messianism, and Utopianism through the Ages ed. by Hans-Christian Lehner (review)","authors":"A. Zaytseva","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2022.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2022.0036","url":null,"abstract":"with close attention to ancient sources, and although the answers are ultimately unknowable their investigation is important. The book’s throughlines are: first, the use and manipulation of scent in ancient magical rituals; and, secondly, the ways in which scent’s physical characteristics make it a useful mental model for the physical operation of magic. The question is posted as to how scent can be knowable and understandable, and can yet, at times, simultaneously avoid clear definition and description. Ager comments on how, in a magical context, “scent becomes a nonverbal technique similar to Tambiah’s idea of persuasive analogy” (27). An important consideration in this regard is the invasive nature of scent: it is invisible and does not really have a physical reality and yet it penetrates private spaces as well as the body and causes an effect (and an affect). This idea is particularly drawn out in sections which focus on the use of scent by witches and women more generally. On the other hand, the analysis of the second relationship between scent and magic, that of the “mental model,” could have been explored in much greater depth, though it remains an interesting theoretical contribution. Given the chronological and geographical scope of the work and the variety of topics covered, more time could have been taken in drawing together overall conclusions. There are, however, good concluding discussions at the end of each constituent chapter.","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"17 1","pages":"359 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49284159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ethics of the Miraculous: Magical Technologies and Religious Pedagogies","authors":"C. Fanger","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2022.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2022.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"17 1","pages":"201 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43693054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occult Roots of Religious Studies. On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia around 1900 ed. by Yves Mühlematter and Helmut Zander (review)","authors":"Stanislav Panin","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2022.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2022.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"17 1","pages":"353 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45953180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The problem, this time, was a stone (depicted in Figure 1). A worn, enchanted relic, used for scrying and prophecy. Or alternately a piece of technology, programmed to decode an ancient tongue. Or, perhaps, a religious object, the option which was in some ways the most disturbing possibility of them all. Before the stone, there had been other problems: race, or samesex marriage, or women’s priesthood. But what happened this time was a stone. The stone was in the possession of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. But then that stone had long been in the Church’s possession, or at times in the personal custody of Church leaders, since sometime roughly around 1877. It was rather the unveiling of the stone in the summer of 2015 that was the precipitating incident. The image of the stone was included as a part of a twovolume facsimile and transcription of the printer’s manuscript for the Book of Mormon. The stone wasn’t much, brown and worn smooth banded jasper, about 5.5 by 3.5 by 4 cm; many of the photographs showed it alongside an equally small pouch, a worn leather container with a drawstring. This stone was one of the seer stones that belonged to the treasure hunter and selfconfessed prophet Joseph Smith; among other things, these stones were
{"title":"Ripples from a (Seer) Stone: Religious, Technological, and Magical Modalities","authors":"Jon Bialecki","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"The problem, this time, was a stone (depicted in Figure 1). A worn, enchanted relic, used for scrying and prophecy. Or alternately a piece of technology, programmed to decode an ancient tongue. Or, perhaps, a religious object, the option which was in some ways the most disturbing possibility of them all. Before the stone, there had been other problems: race, or samesex marriage, or women’s priesthood. But what happened this time was a stone. The stone was in the possession of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. But then that stone had long been in the Church’s possession, or at times in the personal custody of Church leaders, since sometime roughly around 1877. It was rather the unveiling of the stone in the summer of 2015 that was the precipitating incident. The image of the stone was included as a part of a twovolume facsimile and transcription of the printer’s manuscript for the Book of Mormon. The stone wasn’t much, brown and worn smooth banded jasper, about 5.5 by 3.5 by 4 cm; many of the photographs showed it alongside an equally small pouch, a worn leather container with a drawstring. This stone was one of the seer stones that belonged to the treasure hunter and selfconfessed prophet Joseph Smith; among other things, these stones were","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"17 1","pages":"190 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44710442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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