Ritual Embodiment in Modern Western Magic: Becoming the Magician

ISBN-13: 9780367892081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Damon Zacharias Lycourinos

Opis

Starting with an introduction to the study of magic in the Western academy, the book then presents the author’s own participant observation of five ethnographic case studies of modern Western magic. It concludes by discussing the phenomenological implications and issues around embodiment that are inherent to the contemporary practice of magic. <

Spis treści

Introduction: Interpreting the Modern Practice of Western Magic  1 Western Constructions of Magic  2 Liber V vel Reguli  3 The Ninth Key of Gabriel and Levaniel  4 The Blessing of Wōđanaz  5 The Apollonian Invocation  6 The Mithras Liturgy  7 Anthropology of Ritual and the Body in Modern Western Magic  8 Phenomenology of Ritual in Modern Western Magic  9 Phenomenology of the Body in Modern Western Magic  10 Ritualisation and the Subtle Body in Modern Western Magic  Conclusion: Becoming the Magic and the Logic of Western Magical Ritual

O autorze

Damon Zacharias Lycourinos completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he also acted as an instructor in Religious Studies. His main areas of interest are the study of ritual from the perspective of embodied cognition, subjectivity, and self-narrative; the concept of 'spirituality in the flesh'; and a phenomenological consideration of the subtle dimensions of religious experience.