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Contrary to previous assumptions, magic remained an integral part of everyday life in Enlightenment Europe. This book demonstrates that the endurance of magical practices, both benevolent and malevolent, was grounded in early modern perceptions of an interconnected body, self and spiritual cosmos. Drawing on eighteenth-century Swedish witchcraft trials, which are exceptionally detailed, these notions of embodiment and selfhood are explored in depth. The nuanced analysis of healing magic, the role of emotions, the politics of evidence and proof and the very ambiguity of magical rituals reveals a surprising syncretism of Christian and pre-Christian elements. The book provides a unique insight to the history of magic and witchcraft, the study of eighteenth-century religion and culture, and to our understanding of body and self in the past.

Witchcraft --- Magic --- Trials (Witchcraft) --- History --- 133.4 --- 133.4 Occulte werking. Magie. Toverij --- Occulte werking. Magie. Toverij --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Spells --- Magie --- Geschichte 1700-1800 --- Schweden --- UmU kursbok --- Witchcraft - Sweden - History - 18th century. --- Magic - Sweden - History - 18th century. --- Trials (Witchcraft) - Sweden - History - 18th century.

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"Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force during a period in which the Dutch accrued one of the greatest seaborne empires. Using the concept of dynastic colonialism, they explore strategic behaviours undertaken on behalf of the House of Orange-Nassau, through material culture in a variety of sites of interpretation from palaces and gardens to prints and teapots, in Europe and beyond"--Provided by publisher.

Geschlecht. --- International relations. --- Material culture --- Material culture. --- Netherlandish colonies. --- Power (Social sciences) --- Power (Social sciences). --- Sex role --- Sex role. --- Territorial expansion. --- History. --- History. --- History. --- Orange-Nassau, House of. --- Orange-Nassau, House of. --- Oranje-Nassau, --- 1648-1714. --- Europe --- Europe. --- Netherlands --- Netherlands --- Netherlands --- Netherlands --- Netherlands. --- Niederlande. --- Relations --- Colonies --- History. --- History --- Relations --- Territorial expansion --- History.

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This is the first full-length historical study of indigenous evangelists across a range of societies, geographical regions and colonial regimes and the first to focus on the complex issues of authority surrounding the evangelists. It answers a need frequently voiced in recent studies of Christian missions. Most scholars now acknowledge that the remarkable expansion of Christianity in Africa, Asia and the Pacific in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries owed far more to the efforts of indigenous preachers than to the foreign missionaries who loom so large in publications. This book addresses that concern making an excellent introduction to the role of indigenous evangelists in the spread of Christianity, and the many countervailing pressures with which these individuals had to contend. It also includes in the introductory discussions useful statements of the current state of scholarship and theoretical debates in this field.

Evangelistic work --- Indigenous peoples. --- Missions, British. --- Church and state. --- Great Britain. --- Great Britain --- Colonies.