{"title":"Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident by Fumiko Miyazaki et al. (review)","authors":"A. Morrow","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"17 1","pages":"158 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47079260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supernaturals: Qualifying the Supernatural","authors":"Kristof Smeyers","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2021.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2021.0047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"16 1","pages":"381 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45584127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afterword: The Persistence of the Problem of Magic","authors":"C. Fanger","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2021.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2021.0051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"16 1","pages":"415 - 423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42746936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distorted, Dismembered, Diffused: Rethinking the Body in Old Norse Material Culture","authors":"A. C. Snow","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2021.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2021.0044","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:From the late-eighth through the early-twelfth centuries, medieval Norse objects represented the human body in varying states of ambiguity. While the Latin West would establish conventions for representing figures that visibly asserted the emotive expressivity of the face and body to circumscribe the beholder's expected emotional (and spiritual) comportment, the figures represented in medieval Norse art are lacking in physiognomic distinctions such as defined facial features or somatic expressions of emotion. If their anatomical configurations do not appear to convey behavioral codes, then what could they refer to? What cultural factors contributed to their distortion, and how were they read by their intended beholders? This article argues that such enigmatic bodies did not represent human anatomy as it appeared before the eye, but gestured to a broad, flexible, and supernatural corporeality that transgressed the divisions between divine, human, and animal of Latin Western art and thought.","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"16 1","pages":"335 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42366639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Speaking with the Dead in Early America by Erik R. Seeman (review)","authors":"Adam Jortner","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2021.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2021.0058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"16 1","pages":"444 - 447"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45878635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking Back, Looking Forward: Fifteen Years of Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft","authors":"M. Ostling","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2021.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2021.0043","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft marked its fifteenth anniversary in 2020. The editors take this opportunity to examine the conditions under which the journal came into being, its initial vision and initial struggles, and our ongoing attempt to make the journal a truly global and inclusive forum for scholarly discussions of magic, ritual, and witchcraft across wide swaths of time and space.","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"16 1","pages":"285 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46351756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fashioning Magic, Fashioning History: The Past and Present of Modern Witchcraft","authors":"H. Cornish","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2021.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2021.0048","url":null,"abstract":"Helen Cornish is an anthropologist with a long-standing interest in modern witchcraft traditions and how they are historicized. She argues that new conceptions of history are pivotal to understanding how contemporary British witches engage with the past within an inspirited universe.","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"16 1","pages":"389 - 397"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47097566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga by Anya P. Foxen (review)","authors":"N. Collins","doi":"10.1353/mrw.2021.0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2021.0055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41353,"journal":{"name":"Magic Ritual and Witchcraft","volume":"16 1","pages":"435 - 438"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49190174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}