On top of that, and more recently, you also have the Romantic movement's
attitudes toward what it regarded as 'vulgar' and 'bourgeois' notions such
as capitalism, which it held (on the surface, at least) to be generally
antithetical to self-fulfilment etc.
Ieuan
>From: "Chas S. Clifton" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Society for The Academic Study of Magic
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Selling Shamanic Training to Survive
>Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:56:22 -0600
>
>On 20 Aug,06, at 1:58 PM, Sabina Magliocco wrote:
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>>
>>1) Why and how did the prejudice towards money/ spirituality develop in
>>the West? and
>>
>
>I will hazard a totally unsupported opinion that it is a cultural echo
>of the Protestant Reformation--the condemnation of the selling
>of indulgences and so forth.
>
>Chas
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