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In this splendid, daunting, almost wicked book, Daniel O'Keefe gives us a work of unmatched scope and highly animated scholarship about how magic operates in human societies and how it has colored history and culture from the Stone Age to the present.

In this splendid, daunting, almost wicked book, Daniel O'Keefe gives us a work of unmatched scope and highly animated scholarship about how magic operates in human societies and how it has colored history and culture from the Stone Age to the present.

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STOLEN LIGHTNING, The Social Theory of Magic. By Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe. 'STOLEN LIGHTNING'' is a book about magic that tries to do too much - in fact, probably more than anyone can do in a single volume. 581 pp. New York: Continuum. Its great strength is in the sociological theory of magic that the author constructs.

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Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe. Choose file format of this book to download: pdf chm txt rtf doc. Download this format book. Stolen lightning : the social theory of magic Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe. Book's title: Stolen lightning : the social theory of magic Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe. International Standard Book Number (ISBN): 0826400590 :, . 0. Special Coded Dates: DLC, DLC. Library of Congress Call Number: BF1611. Dewey Decimal Classification Number: 306/. Personal Name: O'Keefe, Daniel Lawrence, 1928-.

In this splendid, daunting, almost wicked book, Daniel O'Keefe gives us a work of unmatched scope and highly animated scholarship about how magic operates in human societies and how it has colored history and culture from the Stone Age to the present

In this splendid, daunting, almost wicked book, Daniel O'Keefe gives us a work of unmatched scope and highly animated scholarship about how magic operates in human societies and how it has colored history and culture from the Stone Age to the present.

Magic social action is made up essentially of symbolic performances, a. .

Magic social action is made up essentially of symbolic performances, a process to which linguistic symbolism is the key. Magic is ""rigidly scripted"" (having stolen its scripts from re-religion, it ""rigidities them to retain their efficacy""). Magic, particularly black magic, is a barometer of social pressures on the self.

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DANIEL L. O'KEEFE, Stolen lightning, The social theory of magic, Oxford, Martin Robertson, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxii, 581, £1. This remarkable, erudite, argumentative, and often witty book surveys the seven great. categories of magic - medical magic, black magic, ceremonial magic, religious magic, the occult sciences, the paranormal, and magical cults and sects - drawing them together within a general and historical theory. O'Keefe views magic as a set of opportunistic borrowings from religion.

Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe (February 25, 1928 – August 29, 2012) was an.Daniel and Deborah O'Keefe married in 1963.

Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe (February 25, 1928 – August 29, 2012) was an American writer. O'Keefe published the book Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic in 1982.