Keith Thomas
Born
in Wick, Glamorgan, Wales, The United Kingdom
January 02, 1933
Genre
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
40 editions
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1971
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Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800
20 editions
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published
1983
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The Dunnie
2 editions
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published
2022
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The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England
10 editions
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2009
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In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England
10 editions
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2018
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The Oxford Book of Work
4 editions
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published
1999
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Idlers in the Land
2 editions
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1978
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The God Presence
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2012
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The perception of the past in early modern England: The Creighton Trust lecture 1983, delivered before the University of London on Monday 21 November 1983
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1984
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Heal Like Jesus: A Battlefield Manual (Battlefield Manuals in Spiritual Warfare Book 1)
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2015
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“It would be tempting to explain this long survival of magical practices by pointing out that they helped to provide many professional wizards with a respectable livelihood. The example of the legal profession is a reminder that it is always possible for a substantial social group to support itself by proffering solutions to problems which they themselves have helped to manufacture.”
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“The technological primacy of Western civilization, it can be argued, owes a sizeable debt to the fact that in Europe recourse to magic was to prove less ineradicable than in other parts of the world.61 For this, intellectual and religious factors have been held primarily responsible. The rationalist tradition of classical antiquity blended with the Christian doctrine of a single all-directing Providence to produce what Weber called ‘the disenchantment of the world’ – the conception of an orderly and rational universe, in which effect follows cause in predictable manner. A religious belief in order was a necessary prior assumption upon which the subsequent work of the natural scientists was to be founded. It was a favourable mental environment which made possible the triumph of technology.”
― Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
― Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
“Among the Bemba of Northern Rhodesia, for example, it is said that to find a beehive with honey in the woods is good luck; to find two beehives is very good luck; to find three is witchcraft.”
― Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
― Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
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