Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael Stausberg (eds), Defining Magic: A Reader

Authors

Magic, Paganism, Western Esotericism

Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael Stausberg (eds), Defining Magic: AReader (Sheffield, UK: Equinox, 2013); xiii, 281 pp., $44.95 (paperback).

Carole M. Cusack, University of Sydney

Carole M. Cusack is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney. She researches and teaches on contemporary religious trends (including pilgrimage and tourism, modern Pagan religions, NRMs, and religion and popular culture). Her books include Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Ashgate, 2010) and (with Katharine Buljan) Anime, Religion, and Spirituality: Profane and Sacred Worlds in Contemporary Japan (Equinox, 2015). In 2016 she became Editor of Fieldwork in Religion, and she is also Editor of Literature & Aesthetics (journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics).