مجلة أنثروبولوجية الأديان
Volume 10, Numéro 2, Pages 44-51
2014-06-15

Magic And Religion

Authors : Nadia Boulakdem .

Abstract

Most cultures of the world have religious beliefs that supernatural powers can be compelled, or at least influenced, to act in certain ways for good or evil purposes by using ritual formulas. These formulas are, in a sense, magic. By performing certain magical acts in a particular way, crops might be improved, game herds replenished; illness cured or avoided animals and people made fertile. This is very different from television and stage "magic" that depends on slight-of-hand tricks and contrived illusions rather than supernatural power.

Keywords

Magic, religion