Magic and religion
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Belief in magic exists in all societies, regardless of whether they have organized religious hierarchy including formal clergy or more informal systems. While such concepts appear more frequently in cultures based in polytheism, animism, or shamanism. Religion and magic became conceptually separated in the West where the distinction arose between supernatural events sanctioned by approved religious doctrine versus magic rooted in other religious sources. With the rise of Christianity this became characterised with the contrast between divine miracles versus folk religion, superstition, or occult speculation.
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See also
- Anthropology of religion
- Exorcism
- History of magic
- Mysticism
- Myth and ritual
- Relationship between religion and science
- Religio
- Religion and mythology
- Sorcery (goetia)
- Theories about religion
- Worship of heavenly bodies
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