1. Excellent exceptions to this, in a European context, are two edited collections by Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt, eds, Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), and Witchcraft Continued: Popular Magic in Modern Europe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004).
2. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Talcott Parsons (New York and London: Scribners, Allen & Unwin, 1930) 105; idem, The Sociology of Religion, trans. Ephraim Fischoff (Boston: Beacon Press, 1963);
3. H. H. Gerth, C. Wright Mills and B. S. Turner, eds, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (London: Routledge, 2009).
4. Alexandra Walsham, “The Reformation and ‘the Disenchantment of the World’ Reassessed”, Historical Journal 51/2 (2008): 527–8.
5. Euan Cameron, Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason and Religion, 1250–1750 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) 14.