Macat Library eBooks· 2017
Religion and the Decline of Magic
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Keith Thomas's "Religion and the Decline of Magic" established magic as a legitimate historical problem, arguing that the Protestant Reformation, by displacing Catholic "superstition," created a vacuum that allowed other forms of belief, including magic, to persist until the rise of science.
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