Is Magic related to Religion? Overview on the academic literature.

Is there any relation between Magic and Religion?
We'll cover a few scholars from the 19th and 20th century who talked about the relation (or lack thereof) between the two.

References:

Bar‐Tal, D. (1990), Causes and Consequences of Delegitimization: Models of Conflict and Ethnocentrism. Journal of Social Issues, 46: 65-81

Bremmer, J. N. (1999). The Birth of the Term 'Magic‘. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 126, pp. 1-12.

Crawford H. T. (1899). Relation between Magic and Religion. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 20, pp. 327-331.

Frazer, S. J. G. (2003) The Golden Bough, Abridged Ed edition., Mineola, N.Y, Dover Publications Inc.

Lévi-Strauss, C. (2016) ‘The Sorcerer and His Magic’, in Brown, P. J. and Closser, S. (eds), Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, Routledge, pp. 197–203.

Wax, M. & Wax, R. (1963). The Notion of Magic. Current Anthropology, 4 (5), pp. 495-518.

Wax, M. L. (1967) ‘Magic, Rationality, and Max Weber’, The Kansas Journal of Sociology, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 12–19.
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