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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Rational Spirit and the Modern,
By Samuel E. Wagar "Wiccan historian" (Burnaby, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern (Hardcover)
An exceptionally fine piece of work. Owen's use of sources is excellent - published and unpublished accounts of magickal workings and the documents of occult orders. Her understanding of magickal subjectivity and the reflexivity of modernism is very insightful. Her argument that occultism was central to the formation of modernity is brilliant - in opposition to the usual idea that modernism was opposed to spirituality.I'd reccommend reading Joy Dixon's fine "Divine Feminine", Judith Walkowitz' "City of Dreadful Delights" and Leon Surette's "Birth of Modernism" as well.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Good overview,
By Mycroft (Rio Linda, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern (Hardcover)
This is a fair to good overview of the people & the period, although I think Owens makes over much of her "women's rights" notions. It is well researched & footnoted. Owens could have done much more on the influence of the GD at the turn of the century.
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The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern by Alex Owen (Hardcover - April 14, 2004)
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