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Tag Archives: magic

AUTHOR ARTICLE: Witches and Demons

Jean La Fontaine’s Witches and Demons: A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism just enjoyed its seventh anniversary. And since it remains as popular – and as timely – as ever we asked Jean if she would take a look back at her Berghahn classic (available in paperback and eBook). So many thanks to Jean […]

Jean-Marc De Grave: Studying a Secret Initiation Ritual

This post is the transcript of an electronic interview between D. S. Farrer and Jean-Marc De Grave. Farrer is the special issue editor for Social Analysis Volume 58, Issue 1, and De Grave is the author of the article Javanese Kanuragan Ritual initiation: A Means to Socialize by Acquiring Invulnerability, Authority, and Spiritual Improvement appearing in that […]

War Magic & Warrior Religion: Sorcery, Cognition & Embodiment

This post is the transcript of an electronic interview between D. S. Farrer and Berghahn blog editor Lorna Field. D. S. Farrer is the co-author of the article Chants of Re-enchantment: Chamorro Spiritual Resistance to Colonial Domination and special issue editor of Social Analysis Volume 58, Issue 1: War Magic and Warrior Religion: Sorcery, Cognition, and Embodiment.