Decision-Making Belief-Making. How Realness is Negotiated for Occult Communities

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Magic practitioners have to face the issue and the stigma of holding beliefs and engaging in rituals that contrast the dominant paradigm

So, how are these beliefs maintained and what makes them thrive in hostile mainstream culture?

00:00 Introduction and Greetings

04:20 Lecture

33:00 Questions & Answers

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REFERENCES

O’Connor, C. and Weatherall, J. O. (2018) ‘Scientific polarization’, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 855–875 [Online]. DOI: 10.1007/s13194-018-0213-9.

Stringer, M. D. (1996) ‘Towards a situational theory of belief’, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 217–234.

Stringer, M. D. (2008) Contemporary Western Ethnography and the Definition of Religion, Continuum.

Weatherall, J. O. and O’Connor, C. (2020) ‘How to beat science and influence people: policymakers and propaganda in epistemic networks’, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 71, pp. 1157–1186.

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Published on June 14, 2021

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