{"product_id":"the-nature-of-magic-susan-greenwood-9781845200954","title":"The Nature of Magic: An Anthropology of Consciousness","description":"This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with nature through 'magical consciousness'. 'Magic' and 'consciousness' are concepts that are often fraught with prejudice and ambiguity respectively. Greenwood develops a new theory of magical consciousness by arguing that magic ultimately has more to do with the workings of the human mind in terms of an expanded awareness than with socio-cultural explanations. She combines her own subjective insights gained from magical practice with practitioners' in-depth accounts and sustained academic theory on the process of magic. She also tracks magical consciousness in philosophy, myth, folklore, story-telling, and the hi-tech discourse of postmodernity, and asks important questions concerning nature religion's environmental credentials, such as whether it as inherently ecological as many of its practitioners claim.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Greenwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1845200950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781845200954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.24w x 0.56d","brand":"Susan Greenwood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938930557183,"sku":"9781845200954","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4c688e6b-070c-414d-bd59-6ee64eff5c36.jpg?v=1681438518","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-nature-of-magic-susan-greenwood-9781845200954","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}