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George P. Hansen
> Rationalization, Secularization, and The Paranormal:
on the "Elimination" of Magic from the World
ACADEMY OF SPIRITUALITY AND PARANORMAL
STUDIES, INC.ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010 PROCEEDINGS
ABSTRACT:
Rationalization (Max Weber’s sense) and
secularization reduce societies’acceptance of paranormal (supernatural)
phenomena. Rationalization involvesdisenchantment, i.e., the “elimination”
of magic from the world. Standard definitions of magic from sociology
and anthropology are equivalent to, in parapsychological terms,the
intentional use of psi.
Both religious and secularizing forces work to suppress and marginalize
magic, but it is not eliminated. Practice of, and opposition to,
magic areinfluenced by social position, with opponents of magic
and parapsychology often found among intellectual elites. Intellectual
elite culture is essentially disenchanted
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