Ariel Glucklich
Auteur de Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul
A propos de l'auteur
Ariel Glucklich is a professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul, Climbing Chamundi Hill, and The Strides of Vishnu.
Œuvres de Ariel Glucklich
Dying for Heaven: Holy Pleasure and Suicide Bombers-Why the Best Qualities of Religion Are Also Its Most Dangerous (2009) 27 exemplaires
Sacred Pain and the Phenomenal Self 1 exemplaire
Escada para o Conhecimento, Uma 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion) (2011) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
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- 2
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There may be something to that, but in my opinion it misses the primary question. Whatever the scholarly explanation is, the ordinary person expects a magic ritual/spell to "work", and not just give you a warm fuzzy feeling about how everything in the world is all of one piece. He suggests that asking if magic works is beside the point, but I rather believe that those who have sought out these services, usually in circumstances of stress and crisis, would not agree. They are hoping for results -- healing, money, love, revenge, justice, something -- and are not likely to be satisfied with a psychedelic water color running all into itself. So he leaves untouched whether any of the magic rituals he witnessed actually resulted in anything tangible. And that's a shame.… (plus d'informations)