while “freedom” from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimenta – Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World

while “freedom” from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimenta – Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World.