Second, science has a greater "family resemblance" to magic than does religion. If one were to argue that we should abandon religion because it has some similarities to magic, we would also have ...

It examines the often uneasy, sometimes beneficial, three-way relationship between religion, magic and science Faustus is, of course, the most infamous of the colorful characters who populate the ...

Magic, religion and science have their own strengths and weaknesses. It is not a question of choosing between them – science allows us to understand the world in order to influence and change it.

Professor Burchett's research focuses on (a) early modern devotional (bhakti) and tantric/yogic religiosity in north India and (b) the interrelations of magic, science, and religion in the rise of ...

Professor Burchett's research focuses on (a) early modern devotional (bhakti) and tantric/yogic religiosity in north India and (b) the interrelations of magic, science, and religion in the rise of ...

They understood that there were no easy answers in life. Acknowledging that truth, in both science and religion, could be one way to raise the discussion to a plane where we might all learn something.

This graduate symposium analyzes the ancient Hindu breath-centered divination practice known as svarodaya (Sanskrit: “attainment of toned breath”) to untangle a knot of discourses which scholars ...

In this book, Stenger makes many good points about the conflict between science and religion, particularly the Christian religion. He speaks convincingly about the historic record, showing how ...

His latest book, Religion and the Sciences of Origins: Historical and Contemporary Discussions, is a broad survey of the many challenges that modern science--in particular the biological sciences ...

E.B. Tylor, who wrote Primitive Culture, a foundational work of 19th-century anthropology, lived in Wellington. The onion came to him and thence to the Pitt Rivers Museum of which he was curator from ...