ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the modern period, mainly the nineteenth through the early twenty-first century, and tracing a series of chronological developments, mainly in Western Europe and North America. Moreover, magic still exists even in the most scientifically and technologically advanced Western societies. Nevertheless, Western modernity is characterized to an unprecedented degree by the rejection of any serious belief in magic. This situation emerged from Western Europe's history and then spread around the globe because of Europe's political and economic domination. The chapter also focuses on how the modern West became so thoroughly disenchanted. It explores the various forms of magic that have subsequently developed as part of Western modernity. The chapter examines how the rest of the world has confronted and in various ways accommodated the modernity that the West has exported.
