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Author Burton, Dan.

Title Magic, mystery, and science : the occult in Western civilization / Dan Burton and David Grandy.

Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  133.09 B953m 2004    ---  Available
Description xii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-376) and index.
Contents Egyptians and the occult -- Magic and miracles -- Numerology, the Cabala, and alchemy -- Astrology : the starry heavens above -- Ancient evil -- Satan, demons, and jinn -- Witches and witch-hunts in the West -- Spirits, science, and pseudo-science in the nineteenth century -- New Age preludes : up the garden path? -- ESP and psi phenomena -- Nazism and ancestral German memories -- UFOs and alien abductions -- Gnosticism, old and new -- NDEs, New Age, and new physics.
Subject Occultism -- History.
Added Author Grandy, David.
ISBN 0253216567 (pbk.)
0253343720 (alk. paper)
Standard No. UKM bA3U8698

 
    
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