Robert E. Neale

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Robert Edward Neale (born June 23, 1929) is an American minister, psychologist, paperfolder and magician, who wrote several books on the combination of these topics.

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Education and career

Neale was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan, on June 23, 1929, the son of a lawyer, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at Amherst College and Union Theological Seminary (New York City), working there with Paul Tillich. After working from 1954 to 1957 as a minister for the United Church of Christ, he returned to Union Theological Seminary for doctoral study in 1958. He took a faculty position in the psychology of religion there in 1962, completed his PhD in 1964, and earned tenure in 1967. The death of his brother in the same year sparked his interest in death, and he spent six months in England on sabbatical as a guest chaplain, working with the newly formed hospice movement there. He retired in 1986. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Magic and paperfolding

Neale's interest in magic began at an early age. [1] [2] [4] He was one of the founders of the Friends of The Origami Center, the predecessor organization to Origami USA, and in 1981 he was named as its first president. [5] He was awarded a Special Fellowship by the Academy of Magical Arts in 2013. [6]

Books

Neale's books on magic and paperfolding include: [4]

His other books include:

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References

  1. 1 2 Grimes, Geoffrey, "Robert E. Neale – A Brief Biography", Celebrating Illusions: A Website Dedicated to the Magic of Robert E. Neale, retrieved 2022-11-26
  2. 1 2 Diaconis, Persi; Graham, Ron (2015), "Bob Neale", Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks, Princeton University Press, pp. 160–162, ISBN   9780691169774
  3. ↑ Greenawalt, Jack C. (November 1971), "Robert E. Neale", Pastoral Psychology, 22 (9): 4, doi:10.1007/bf01761671, S2CID   143435616
  4. 1 2 3 Smith, Michael; Grimes, Geoffrey (September 2018), "The Robert E. Neale Index: A Resource for the Study of Robert E. Neale's Trilogy of Magic", 2018 Magic & Meaning Conference, retrieved 2022-11-26
  5. ↑ Lister, David (October 1994), "Alice Gray – Entomologist and Paperfolder", British Origami, vol. 168
  6. ↑ Hall of Fame, Academy of Magical Arts, retrieved 2022-11-26
  7. ↑ Reviews of In Praise of Play:
  8. ↑ Reviews of The Art of Dying:
  9. ↑ Reviews of Death and Ministry:
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