Magic and ModernityMagic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how magicusually portrayed as the antithesis of the modernis also something that is at home in modernity. "Magic" and "modernity" are rarely regarded as belonging together. Evolutionism regarded magic as quintessentially "unmodern." Although psychologists and romantic artists have sometimes declared magic to be a human universal, few modern scholars in the humanities and social sciences