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- For widely varied views of witchcraft, for example, see my article in theEncy-
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- Ibid., 11.
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Vintage, 1977). - Jeffrey Burton Russell,Satan(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981),
186–218. - Mary Hesse, inThe Construction of Reality,ed. Michael Arbib and Mary B.
Hesse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 351. - Jeffrey Burton Russell,A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence(Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1997), 84. - Jeffrey Burton Russell,Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cor-
nell University Press, 1984), 160–161. - Dante,Paradiso, cantos 27–33; Russell,A History,155–181.
- William Barrett,The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Techno-
logical Civilization(Garden City, N.J.: Anchor Press, 1978). - David C. Lindberg,The Beginnings of Western Science(Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1992), 362. - Ibid.; see also Edward Grant,The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle
Ages(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). - John W. Draper,History of the Conflict between Religion and Science(New York:
Appleton, 1874), vi–vii. - Russell,Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians(Westport,
Conn.: Praeger, 1991). - Edward O. Wilson,Consilience(New York: Knopf, 1998), 261.
- Richard Lewontin, Review of Carl Sagan’sThe Demonized World, New York
Review of Books,January 9, 1997. - Wendell Berry,Life Is a Miracle(Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000), 50.
- Wilson,Consilience, 97, 119–120.
- Susan Neiman,Evil in Modern Thought(Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2002); Jeffrey Burton Russell,Mephistopheles(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University
Press, 1986), 146–149. - Norman Kreitman,The Roots of Metaphor(Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999),
- Ibid., 154.
- Ibid., 155.
- Ibid., 120–121.
- Philip Wheelwright,The Burning Fountain(Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana Uni-
versity Press, 1968), 201. - Hesse,Reality, 352.
- For example, Dante’s “where the sun is silent.”
- Kreitman,Roots, 169.
- Muslims believe that God’s angel dictated the Qur’an word for word in Ara-