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Miracles In The Shadow Of The Economic Miracle: The 'Supernatural 50s' In West Germany, Monica Black
Miracles In The Shadow Of The Economic Miracle: The 'Supernatural 50s' In West Germany, Monica Black
Monica Black
This essay explores the overlapping worlds of spiritual healing, everyday magic, popular religion, and witchcraft beliefs in West Germany in the 1950s. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/full/10.1086/667597 Article DOI: 10.1086/667597
Chapter 12: Torts, Crimes, Sanctions. Witchcraft And Related Issues (The Anthropology Of Compensatory Or Retributive Justice), Wolfgang Fikentscher
Chapter 12: Torts, Crimes, Sanctions. Witchcraft And Related Issues (The Anthropology Of Compensatory Or Retributive Justice), Wolfgang Fikentscher
Wolfgang Fikentscher
Inclusive online updates jan10. Chapter 12 on torts and other wrongdoings will treat, along with the traditionally well researched basic concepts of this field of legtal anthropology (to which only brief attention will be given) a recently again debated alleged contrast between shame and guilt societies, the phenomenon of knowledge as witchcraft, and a short report on the growth and institutionalization of international criminal law. Early cultures do not distinguish between torts and crimes. They speak of wrongdoings. A designation of the person who commits the the tort or crime, is a “perpetrator” who is the defendant in civil and …
Witchcraft And Wonder In The Winter's Tale, Kirby Farrell
Witchcraft And Wonder In The Winter's Tale, Kirby Farrell
kirby farrell
The Winter’s Tale is constructed to generate an experience of wonder as Hermione’s statue comes to life. Audiences are meant to share what Leontes calls “The pleasure of that madness” (5.3.73). This revelatory madness is magical undoing: it dissolves the paranoid paroxysm at the outset of the play that crystallizes ideas about witchcraft, even as Hermione's play death and "resurrection" purge her of associations with witches.
Feminist Spiritualities: A Brief Overview, Marilyn Pukkila
Feminist Spiritualities: A Brief Overview, Marilyn Pukkila
Marilyn R. Pukkila
A bibliographic essay on the early beginnings of feminist spirituality literature, from the 1960s to 1998.
The Literature Of Contemporary Witchcraft: Formalists, Femininsts, And Free Spirits, Marilyn R. Pukkila
The Literature Of Contemporary Witchcraft: Formalists, Femininsts, And Free Spirits, Marilyn R. Pukkila
Marilyn R. Pukkila
A bibliographic essay on the writings of contemporary Witchcraft, from the late 1890s to 1998.