Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, Issue 2: Journal for the Academic Study of Magic

"Diverse materials...from people who really know their stuff. ...another fine emission." -- Fortean Times, May 2005.
"Diverse materials...from people who really know their stuff. ...another fine emission." -- Fortean Times, May 2005.

Contents: Alien Selves: Modernity and the Social Diagnostics of the Demonic in Lovecraftian Magick'; Wishful Thinking Notes towards a psychoanalytic sociology of Pagan magic; A Shell with my Name on it: The Reliance on the Supernatural During the First World War; The Metaphysical Relationship between Magic and Miracles; Demonic Possession, and Spiritual Healing in Nineteenth-Century Devon; Human Body in Southern Slavic Folk Sorcery; Four Glasses Of Water; The Land Near the Dark Cornish Sea; Kenneth Grant and the Magickal revival; Magic through the Linguistic Lenses of Greek mágos, Indo-European *mag(h)-, Sanskrit máyá and Pharaonic Egyptian heka; The symbolism of the pierced heart.