The Contribution of the Early Modern Humanities to “Disenchantment” .

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      THOMAS, Keith
    • Abstract:
      The author calls for greater attention to the role of history and the humanist scholarship in the decline of magical beliefs in the early modern period. Topics discussed include history of witchcraft according to historian Keith Thomas in "Religion and the Decline of Magic," the standard arguments for and against the reality of witchcraft, and pastor Balthazar Bekker's criticism of traditional doctrines about the devil in "The World Bewitched."