Historical, Philosophical, Political and Law Sciences, Culturology and Study of Art. Issues of Theory and Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2016. № 7. Part 1. P. 122-126.
SPECIFICITY OF MAGIC AS A FORM OF RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS
Popov Aleksei Vladimirovich
Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts
Abstract. The article analyzes the characteristic features of magic as a form of religious consciousness. Main attention is paid to the features that allow showing a significant difference between magical consciousness and other forms of religious consciousness. It is demonstrated that one of the important peculiarities of magic is borrowing certain doctrinal elements from other religions and endowing them with new semantic content.
Key words and phrases: магия, магическое сознание, религиозное сознание, религиозный опыт, сверхъестественное, magic, magical consciousness, religious consciousness, religious experience, supernatural
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