The complex process that has led to the current spread of magic and esotericism is constituted on the one hand by secularisation and secularism, and … - Cecilia Gatto Trocchi

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The complex process that has led to the current spread of magic and esotericism is constituted on the one hand by secularisation and secularism, and on the other by the alternative gnosticisms heavily advocated by secular, ‘disenchanted’ and progressive thought. Such is the humus on which thrives the new magism, as weel as the "supermarket occultism" of our times that journalists and mass communicators ennoble and repropose in the dominant cultural vacuum.

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About Cecilia Gatto Trocchi

Cecilia Gatto Trocchi (19 June 1939 – 11 July 2005) was an Italian Roman Catholic anthropologist.

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