Turner asserts early on in his article that the practice of manipulating impersonal supernatural powers referred to as "magic"is
A) not a religious practice, in the Western anthropological sense of the word.
B) sometimes associated with religion, but is actually more connected to methods of social control and conflict resolution.
C) considered a religious practice because some element of the supernatural is manipulated for specific ends.
D) misguided superstition and, therefore, doesn't involve truly religious concepts.
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