 Similarly, the historian Michael D. Bailey characterised "magic" as "a deeply contested category and a very fraught label"; as a category, he noted, it was "profoundly unstable" given that definitions of the term have "varied dramatically across time and between cultures".Scholars have engaged in extensive debates as to how to define magic, with such debates resulting in intense dispute.Throughout such debates, the scholarly community has failed to agree on a definition of magic, in a similar manner to how they have failed to agree on a definition of religion.