Introduction: Western Learned Magic as an Entangled Tradition
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer April 14, 2023 Bernd-Christian Otto
The introduction to this special issue outlines the concept of Western learned magic and suggests to analyse it as an entangled tradition, thus calling for an interdisciplinary, transcultural and transreligious perspective on its history. A working heuristic of seven different types of entanglement in the history of Western learned magic is proposed, whereas special emphasis is placed on...