SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Allister, Witch Doctor

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

Document Summary

It means to be hidden from general view/vision. It is hidden from the general understanding, only known to those who have that knowledge. Example cor: counsel of orthodox rabbis, found on food labels, to see if kosher. Only those who are jewish would have that knowledge, and this information would be hidden to the rest. Magic (k): harnessing of force from the universe (allister crowley). You can"t see or feel electricity, however we can see the manifestation/ results (light, giving power to appliances) from the use electricity. Sleight of hand: staged magicians, magic as an entertainment. Prestidigitation: another word for sleight of hand, is magic tricks performed as entertainment. Witch: there are 5 different definitions of witch and they are all unrelated phenomenon: anthropology: anthropologians back at that time were white, european, caucasian men. Witch doctors were small, indigenous practitioners that didn"t follow the anthropologist"s christianity religion. Shamans or witch doctors were small scale religion traditions.