Ariel Glucklich
Autor(a) de Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul
About the Author
Ariel Glucklich is a professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul, Climbing Chamundi Hill, and The Strides of Vishnu.
Obras por Ariel Glucklich
Dying for Heaven: Holy Pleasure and Suicide Bombers-Why the Best Qualities of Religion Are Also Its Most Dangerous (2009) 28 exemplares
Sacred Pain and the Phenomenal Self 1 exemplar
Escada para o Conhecimento, Uma 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion) (2011) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Israel (birth)
- Ocupações
- professor
- Organizações
- Georgetown University
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Críticas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 14
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 223
- Popularidade
- #100,550
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 31
- Línguas
- 2
There may be something to that, but in my opinion it misses the primary question. Whatever the scholarly explanation is, the ordinary person expects a magic ritual/spell to "work", and not just give you a warm fuzzy feeling about how everything in the world is all of one piece. He suggests that asking if magic works is beside the point, but I rather believe that those who have sought out these services, usually in circumstances of stress and crisis, would not agree. They are hoping for results -- healing, money, love, revenge, justice, something -- and are not likely to be satisfied with a psychedelic water color running all into itself. So he leaves untouched whether any of the magic rituals he witnessed actually resulted in anything tangible. And that's a shame.… (mais)