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The Religion of Fools? Superstition Past and PresentS. A. Smith and Alan Knight (eds)

Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Religion of Fools? Superstition Past and Present

by S. A. Smith and Alan Knight (eds)

A collection of essays, published as a supplement to the journal Past and Present, on the uses of 'superstition' as a category from antiquity to modern China, Russia and Latin America. The introduction is a valuable survey of the concept's history.

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