Magic Millenium Sociological Study Religious by Wilson Bryan (4 results)
Published by Harper and Row,, 1973
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Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. Magic and the Millenium: A Sociological Study of Religious Movements of Protest among Tribal and Third-World Peoples, Wilson, Bryan R., Harper and Row, NY, 1973, 547p, hc w/dj, dj bumped/scuffed/shelf wear/small tears, boards bumped/scuffed, text clean, solid binding -7.00.
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purple full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. vg+ / near fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. top edge of first 50 pages were partially untrimmed, had to be opened with a knife (looks a little rough), otherwise contents free of markings. price clipped dus…twrapper in vg+ / near fine cond. crease on front, scratch & 1cm edge tear on rear. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first u.s edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line ~ at rear of book). xi+547p. bibliography. index of authors. index of subjects. index of principal movements, tribes & persons. religion. social science. world history. psychology. candombles. doukhobors. ghost dance. peyote colt. ras tafari. tenskwatawa. umbanda. yoruba. zulu. ~ In conditions of extremity men ask themselves: 'What is to be done?' 'What shall we do to be saved?' There are several possible answers. Two are both primary and primitive: the recourse to magic; and the belief in a new world order imposed from above, 'a millennium' as it is called in Christendom. These two responses to social distress and cultural shock are seen most vividly where 'ThirdWorld' peoples have felt the impact of the expanding West, where they have encountered modernity and interpreted it either as magic or as the millennium, or which, by magic or by faith in a millennium, they have sought to dispel. Yet magic does not work and the millennium does not come. In this study, Bryan Wilson shows what happens when magic proves inadequate and when prophecy fails. The two basic responses change, and men in the Third World find other modes of adjustment to the alien culture that has engulfed them. Using insights drawn from his earlier studies of sects in Western Christendom, the author shows how changing social needs give rise to these new religious responses: he examines newly arising religious movements from Papua to Brazil, and from the American Indian frontier to the West Coast of Africa. Rejecting both simple chronology and cultural peculiarities as an adequate guide to these movements, he seeks to make sense of them from a sociological perspective and provides theoretical unity and coherence to the study of fascinatingly diverse religious phenomena, ranging from Hau Hau to Mau Mau and from Peyotism to Pentecostalism. Students of social change ~sociologists, historians, political scientists and anthropologists~will find much of importance in this work, which will command no less attention from social psychologists and students of religion.
Language: English
Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, San Francisco, London, et al., 1973
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 547 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Small pen mark on bottom edge. Frances J. Effenbein (Jacket Design) (illustrator).
Magic and the millenium : a sociological study of religious movements of protest among tribal and third-world peoples.
Wilson, Bryan R. (Bryan Ronald), reader in sociology at the Univ. of Oxford, 1926-2004.
Published by New York: Harper & Row [1973]., 1973
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Contact seller4-star sellerVG orig. plum cloth in price-clipped beige on black dj. xi, 547 p.; 24 cm. 1st U.S. edition. Binding is Hardcover.
