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Wow! On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Melissa Harrington < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Congratulations, > > this looks great, I will certainly buy a copy. > > thanks > > Melissa. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernd-Christian Otto" < > [log in to unmask]> > To: <ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC@**JISCMAIL.AC.UK<[log in to unmask]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:56 PM > Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Defining magic > > > > Hello everyone! > > I would like to announce the publication of a volume which might be of > interest to some readers of this list, namely Michael Stausberg’s and my > Defining Magic: A Reader. It was just recently published in the series > "Critical Categories in the Study of Religion" at Equinox > Publishing/Acumen. Those of you who teach courses on magic might find the > genre of a reader particularly useful as it includes a range of important > definitions and theories all in one place. Apart from the usual suspects, > i.e. excerpts of classical authors (Tylor, Frazer, Mauss/Hubert, Durkheim, > van der Leeuw, Malinowski, Evans-Pritchard, Horton, Tambiah, Leach), we > also included a section covering pre-academic sources (from Plato to > Blavatsky) and a section with original texts by five contemporary authors > (Greenwood, Lehrich, Sørensen, Stratton, Styers). Have a look at the TOC: > http://www.acumenpublishing.**co.uk/display.asp?K=** > e2012121911335322&sf1=subj_**code&st1=RS&sort=sort_date/d&** > ds=Reference&m=18&dc=50<http://www.acumenpublishing.co.uk/display.asp?K=e2012121911335322&sf1=subj_code&st1=RS&sort=sort_date/d&ds=Reference&m=18&dc=50> > . > > All texts are seperately introduced for student readers. There is also an > introduction devoted to sorting out the definition riddle, and sectional > introductions which aim at embedding the selected sources in the wider > discourse of the respective time. > > But now enough of advertising! Best wishes from > Bernd-Christian Otto & Michael Stausberg > -- Compcros <http://danteadinkra.wix.com/compcros> Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems "Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"