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“while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation."

-- Making Magic, p. 13”
Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World
“[Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human culture.

-- Randall Styers, Making Magic, p. 17”
Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World
“Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdetermined.

-- Making Magic, p. 23”
Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World
“With a cloak of naturalized rationalism, scholars can deflect our attention from the power effected in their theory-making.

-- Randall Styers, Making Magic, p. 23”
Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World

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Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series) Making Magic
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[Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World] (By: Randall G. Styers) [published: January, 2004] [Making Magic
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Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization (Magic in History) Magic in the Modern World
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