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Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality
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Most anthropologists who have attempted to demarcate and contrast magic, science and religion as cross-cultural categories appear to have been unaware of the rich and long intellectual history of Western thought which framed their own specialized writings. In this book, Professor Tambiah reexamines magic, science and religion within the framework of this history, including the Judaic religion, early Greek science, Renaissance philosophy, the Protestant Reformation, and the European scientific revolution in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521376310
- ISBN-10: 0521376319
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: March 1990
- Dimensions: 9.06 x 6.04 x 0.49 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.72 pounds
- Page Count: 200
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