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From the perspective of Western modernity humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos Gods spirits and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond Yet the vast majority of cultures throughout human history treat spirits as very real persons members of a cosmic society who interact with humans and control their fate In most cultures even today people are but a small part of an enchanted universe misconstrued by the transcendent categories of religion and the supernatural The New Science of the Enchanted Universe shows how anthropologists and other social scientists must rethink these cultures of immanence and study them by their own lights