{"id":695,"date":"2018-04-03T08:24:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=695"},"modified":"2018-04-02T09:52:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T09:52:58","slug":"magic-and-modernity-at-the-religious-studies-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"Magic and Modernity at the Religious Studies Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just published over at <a href=\"https:\/\/religiousstudiesproject.com\/podcast\/magic-and-modernity\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/religiousstudiesproject.com');\">the Religious Studies Project<\/a> is a\u00a0conversation between the Open University&#8217;s Richard Irvine, Theodoros Kyriakides and David G. Robertson concerning magical thinking in the modern world. We may think that such ideas are confined to the fringes in the secular, post-Enlightenment society, but this is not necessarily the case. We talk about Weber\u2019s rationalisation and James Frazer\u2019s evolutionary model of modernity, and how they relate to ideas of belief, and magic. We then look at examples from Orkney and Cyprus to show these ideas in play. This is an interview that will be of interest to all students of secularity, modernity and belief.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Magic and Modernity with Richard Irvine and Theodoros Kyriakides\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pdcqBBiPG5U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This interview was recorded at\u00a0our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?page_id=403\" >Contemporary Religion in Historical Perspective conference<\/a> in Feb 2018, and is based on the \u201cMagical thinking in contexts and situations of unbelief\u201d project, part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/\" >Understanding Unbelief<\/a> programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just published over at the Religious Studies Project is a\u00a0conversation between the Open University&#8217;s Richard Irvine, Theodoros Kyriakides and David G. Robertson concerning magical thinking in the modern world. We may think that such ideas are confined to the fringes in the secular, post-Enlightenment society, but this is not necessarily the case. We talk about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,105],"tags":[196,92,200,61,145,199,141,201,194,195],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemporary-religion-in-historical-perspective-2","category-videos","tag-cyprus","tag-david-robertson","tag-interview","tag-interviews","tag-magic","tag-magical-thinking","tag-orkney","tag-religious-studies-project","tag-richard-irvine","tag-theodoros-kyriakides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}