Investigations Into Magic
Subtitle: Martin del Rio (Social and Cultural Values in Early Modern Europe)
Contributors: P.G. Maxwell-Stuart (Editor)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: December 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780719049767
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Occultism & quasi-religious beliefs; Social history; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Parapsychology - General; Occult Sciences; Body, Mind & Spirit; New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit; New Age; Europe; Magick Studies; Body, Mind & Spirit / Witchcraft & Wicca
First sentence: [For Lucretius and other pagan writers, religion meant 'fear of God,' and since they thought that God played no part in human affairs, they equated religion with superstition, 'superstition', according to Isidore's etymology, being the same as 'superfluousness'.