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There was a 'classic' anthropological paper by - as I recall - George Gmelch, on 'Baseball Magic', that looked into many dimensions of this, foregrounding the uncertainty issues, which had been at that time very well debated and indicated within anthropological theory of the era. Is this what is being drawn on here? Jenny >I've been trying to catch up on emails. This seems to toch on Stuart >Vyse's Believing in Magic. The psychology of superstition. He talks >about a baseball player using magic or ritual as it's an uncertain >world on the pitch. > >I suppose that one can undertake activities in a de-spirited sense >but isn't there a hymn (by George Herbert of Bemerton?) that says >something like, > >'Who sweeps a room in the name divine >Makes that and the action fine'? > >But I suppopse that here I'm onflating magic and religion. > >Best wishes, > >RR -- Dr J. Blain [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Programme Leader, MA Social Science Research Methods Applied Social Science, Faculty of Development and Society, Sheffield Hallam University Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, UK S10 2BP 0114 225 4413 07919 556371 http://www.sacredsites.org.uk home address: 18 Lemont Road, Sheffield S17 4HA 0114 262 1342 07919 556371