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Magic Beliefs

Magic Beliefs is a category of culturally structured supernatural belief that attributes causal efficacy to ritualized actions, symbols, objects, or agents understood to manipulate occult forces in order to influence events, conditions, or persons beyond empirically demonstrable mechanisms.

383

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25.3K

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570

Authors

236

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2017–2026

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Publications

383

The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and Religion

Nature · 1901 · 1.1K citations

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Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

Phyllis M. Kaberry · International Affairs · 1948 · 930 citations

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Magic, Science and Religion.

Marvin K. Opler, Bronisław Malinowski, Robert R. Redfield · Philosophy and Phenomenological Research · 1949 · 678 citations

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Religion and the Decline of Magic. Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England.

Robert Ashton, Keith Thomas, Alan Macfarlane · The Economic History Review · 1972 · 617 citations

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Religion and the Decline of Magic.

Alexander R. Rysman, Keith Thomas · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1975 · 540 citations

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Authors

570

  1. JD
    Jacqueline D. Woolley

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    5 publications · 624 citations

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  2. ES
    Eugene Subbotsky

    Lancaster University, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 282 citations

    5

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  3. PL
    Paul L. Harris

    Harvard University, United States

    5 publications · 223 citations

    5

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  4. ML
    Marjaana Lindeman

    University of Helsinki, Finland

    5 publications · 832 citations

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  5. GK
    Gustav Kuhn

    Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 67 citations

    4

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Institutions

236

  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    9 h-index

    11 publications

    302 citations

  2. Goldsmiths University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    185 citations

  3. Lancaster University

    Lancaster, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    282 citations

  4. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    411 citations

  5. University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finland

    5 h-index

    10 publications

    1.7K citations

  6. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    643 citations

  7. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    398 citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    542 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 22 publications · 2.2K citations

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  2. Nature

    13 publications · 2.1K citations

    13

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  3. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

    JSSR · 8 publications · 256 citations

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  4. Africa

    7 publications · 247 citations

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  5. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

    JIH · 5 publications · 186 citations

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