Edward Bever is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Old Westbury and the author of The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition, and Everyday Life.Randall Styers is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World.

“A powerful collection that succeeds in connecting history, science, and psychology, and will be relevant to scholars of each.”—A. E. Leykam Choice

• ContentsIntroduction, Edward Bever and Randall StyersMagic and the Making of ModernityChapter 1, “Bad Habits, or, How Superstition Disappeared in the Modern World,” Randall StyersChapter 2, “Descartes’ Dreams, the Neuropsychology of Disbelief, and the Making of the Modern Self,” Edward BeverChapter 3, “Why Magic Cannot Be Falsified by Experiments,” Benedek LángChapter 4, “Witches as Liars: Witchcraft and Civilization in the Early American Republic,” Adam JortnerMagic in ModernityChapter 5, “Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg: The Contested Arena of Modern Enochian Angel Magic,” Egil AspremChapter 6, “Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the ‘Method of Science,’” Erik DavisChapter 7, “Manning the High Seat: Seidr as Self-Making in Contemporary NorseNeopaganisms,” Megan GoodwinChapter 8, “Reviving Dead Names: Strategies of Legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the Dark Aesthetic,” Dan HarmsSelected BibliographyNotesList of ContributorsIndex

Edward Bever is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Old Westbury and the author of The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition, and Everyday Life.Randall Styers is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World.

“A powerful collection that succeeds in connecting history, science, and psychology, and will be relevant to scholars of each.”—A. E. Leykam Choice

• ContentsIntroduction, Edward Bever and Randall StyersMagic and the Making of ModernityChapter 1, “Bad Habits, or, How Superstition Disappeared in the Modern World,” Randall StyersChapter 2, “Descartes’ Dreams, the Neuropsychology of Disbelief, and the Making of the Modern Self,” Edward BeverChapter 3, “Why Magic Cannot Be Falsified by Experiments,” Benedek LángChapter 4, “Witches as Liars: Witchcraft and Civilization in the Early American Republic,” Adam JortnerMagic in ModernityChapter 5, “Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg: The Contested Arena of Modern Enochian Angel Magic,” Egil AspremChapter 6, “Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the ‘Method of Science,’” Erik DavisChapter 7, “Manning the High Seat: Seidr as Self-Making in Contemporary NorseNeopaganisms,” Megan GoodwinChapter 8, “Reviving Dead Names: Strategies of Legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the Dark Aesthetic,” Dan HarmsSelected BibliographyNotesList of ContributorsIndex