The Devil within [electronic resource] : possession and exorcism in the Christian West / Brian Levack.
Levack, Brian P.
2013
BV873.E8 L48 2013eb
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Title The Devil within [electronic resource] : possession and exorcism in the Christian West / Brian Levack.
Author Levack, Brian P.
ISBN 9780300195385 (electronic book)
9780300114720
Imprint New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 346 p.) : ill.
Call Number BV873.E8 L48 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 133.4/26094
Summary In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. This book focuses on possession and exorcism in the Reformation period, and also reaches back to the fifteenth century and forward to our own times.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Making sense of demonic possession
Possession and exorcism in Christian antiquity
Possession in Christian demonology
Expelling the demon
Demonic possession and illness
The performance of the possessed
The demoniac in society
The demoniac and the witch
Possession in the age of reason
Possession : past and present
Conclusion.

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