Enchantment - A Critical Primer - Ian Alexander Cuthbertson

Enchantment - A Critical Primer - Ian Alexander Cuthbertson

Why Enchantment?

Enchantment - A Critical Primer - Ian Alexander Cuthbertson

Ian Alexander Cuthbertson [+-]
Ian Alexander Cuthbertson is an independent scholar who is broadly interested in exploring how the category “religion” is deployed to legitimize certain beliefs, practices, and institutions while delegitimizing others. Ian lives in England with his wife Virginia and their son Ciaran and often puts pineapple on pizza.

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In the introduction, I situate enchantment as a key concept for engaging with a wide range of conversations both within and outside religious studies scholarship including: descriptions of modernity; accounts of secularization; conflicts between science and religion; differences between pre-modern and modern religious forms; comparisons between pre-modern and modern societies and religious expressions, new materialisms, immanent justifications for environmentalism, and arguments concerning the place of religious justifications in legal proceedings.

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Cuthbertson, Ian Alexander. Why Enchantment?. Enchantment - A Critical Primer. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 1-9 Aug 2024. ISBN 9781800504462. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=43964. Date accessed: 11 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.43964. Aug 2024

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