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While I don't know about religion, I personally love to think of electricity as "magic" or "mana" more specifically. It is the magical fuel that powers modern-day magic. We etch arcane runes (circuits), pump mana (electricity) through them, and generate magical results.

Raw mana can also be projected to inflict damage, heal, generate light, heat, etc.

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Ha, yes, definititely! Did you ever come into contact with RF design? Things like antennas are quite literally drawing-pentagrams-on-the-floor-style witchcraft ;) [1]

You might also like [2], a story where magic is real and treated as just another field of science/engineering (yes, there are ISO standards for your magic circles and everything ;).

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[1] See e.g. https://www.sv1afn.com/pcbruler.html or http://www.digdice.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/panel22dbi... for some examples.

[2] https://qntm.org/ra

"On a Pale Horse"[1] also takes place in a world with magic and science. Airlines have to compete with magic carpet companies and computers are often used to cast magic because they can be incredibly precise.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_a_Pale_Horse

I started Ra a while back, but the writing style just threw me unfortunately. RF design is an area I had not considered, but that is kind of funny with the analogy to pentagrams.

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