04 - Magic in the Ancient World with Dr. Andrew Henry
Hearth of Hellenism
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The Ripple Effect of Scholars Using Magic to Build Religion
When scholars use magic, then there's this blurring of again the blurring between scholarship understanding of magic what does that mean ancient magia modern magic with a K. It gets really tangled I think and so I think if we at the academic level. Create a different word as more neutral, it might help to clarify these things now. This is something that's not necessarily the priority of a scholar what a which or pagan does, but it isThis ripple effect that that does come out of scholarship that I think scholars aren't aware of how the work is being used by practitioners. These are all religious functionaries. And you know temple functionaries at the local temple to demeanour making
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