Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern WorldSince the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of magic has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to distinctly modern models of religion and science. Yet this notion of magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. In Making Magic,