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Religion and the Decline of Magic Keith Thomas
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

Are 48 million Americans with no religious affiliation. May 22, 2013 - Cheap Religion and the Decline of Magic (Penguin History) Deals. Jul 16, 2010 - Keith Thomas's classic Religion and the Decline of Magic recounts medieval stories of “how the Host was profanely employed to put out fires, to cure swine fever, to fertilise the fields and to encourage bees to make honey. The large decline in attendance at religious services has not happened because many adults have stopped going to church: it has happened because more and more adults never start attending in the first place. Apr 21, 2009 - Both sections of society began to reject ghost stories and traditional religion, while the Anglican Church, re-established and protected by penal legislation, looked on in apathy. In Michael Shermer's December 2013 'Skeptic' column for Scientific American, he discusses some of the reasons why we are seeing a declining trend in religious belief. Apr 6, 2011 - Guns & Decline of Hunting Magic. Mar 29, 2014 - I've been simultaneously reading Keith Thomas's magisterial and canonic Religion and the Decline of Magic and Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch. May 30, 2012 - One of the most intriguing history books of the past 50 years, Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic describes the relationship between the occult and Christianity in England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Apr 1, 2014 - @Victoria Interesting, especially about religion “played a role in curtailing death anxiety.” Did you ever read Religion & The Decline of Magic? Religion and the Decline of Magic. May 19, 2013 - 5/19/2013 – – In today's New York Times book review section, Hilary Mantel, the author of Wolf Hall, says that the book she most presses on other people is Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas. For the most part, though, these “beliefs” are casual in the extreme: cultivated by popular culture and its delight in magic and Gothic romanticism, held in the most tentative and experimental way, with no connection to any meaningful spirituality.