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The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences is a 2017 book by Jason Josephson Storm, professor of religion at Williams College. The book challenges mainstream sociological conceptions of disenchantment on both empirical and theoretical grounds.
- Jason A. Josephson-Storm
- 2017
Josephson-Storm asks the key question: How did this factual myth become one of the myths that defines the modern age. . . . In Josephson-Storm’s telling, the cultural trajectory of the past two centuries has not been ‘disenchantment’ so much as ‘de-Christianization.’ . . .
Throughout his reply, Josephson-Storm suggests that disenchantment simply means that “people no longer believe in spirits, myth, or magic.”
May 4, 2018 · By “myth,” Josephson-Storm means something that is both “factually false” and a “master cultural narrative.” As a factual matter, “magic never truly vanished.” We’re told that the Reformation disenchanted Western Europe, but Luther threw his inkpot at the devil and Puritans put witches on trial.
May 16, 2017 · Josephson-Storm is also correct in pointing out how the myth of disenchantment has been used by thinkers at many different times over the ages to either argue for the triumph or reason or conversely to argue for the need to restore the magic to a re-enchanted world.
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