shopping cart
Save up to 30% on our Staff Picks
Call us: 800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Interviews | November 3, 2009

Sheila A.: IMG On Storytelling: The Powells.com Interview with Donald Miller

2 comments By Sheila A.

donaldmillerDonald Miller is a Christian writer, but the question that Miller asks with his latest memoir, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, is applicable to... Continue »
  1. $13.99 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

    Donald Miller

Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians (Religion in the First Christian Centuries)

by Naomi Janowitz

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Using in-depth examples of "magical" practice such as exorcisms, love rites, alchemy and the transformation of humans into divine beings, this lively volume demonstrates that the word "magic" was used widely in late antique texts as part of polemics against enemies and sometimes merely as a term for other people's rituals. Professor Janowitz shows that "magical" activities were integral to late antique religious practice, and that they must be understood from the perspective of those who employed them.
back to top
back to top

Product Details

ISBN:
9780415202060
Author:
Janowitz, Naomi
Publisher:
Routledge
Author:
Janowitz Naomi
Subject:
General
Subject:
History
Subject:
Magick Studies
Subject:
Rites and ceremonies
Subject:
Rome
Subject:
Magic, Ancient
Subject:
Rites and ceremonies -- Rome.
Series:
Religion in the First Christian Centuries
Publication Date:
July 2001
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
160
back to top

Other books you might like

  1. $40.00 Used Hardcover add to wish list

    Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

    Jeffrey H Chajes
back to top

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.