How About Demons?: Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World

Quite an interesting book... " —Religious Studies Review

It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years." —The American Rationalist

... Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatment of a compelling and much-debated subject." —Journal of Folklore Research

Rich in detail derived from the author's fieldwork and the anthropological literature, this work paints a picture of possession as one of the usually positive and most widespread of human religious experiences. It also details the ritual of exorcism, which is applied when things go wrong.

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How About Demons?: Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World

Quite an interesting book... " —Religious Studies Review

It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years." —The American Rationalist

... Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatment of a compelling and much-debated subject." —Journal of Folklore Research

Rich in detail derived from the author's fieldwork and the anthropological literature, this work paints a picture of possession as one of the usually positive and most widespread of human religious experiences. It also details the ritual of exorcism, which is applied when things go wrong.

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How About Demons?: Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World

How About Demons?: Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World

by Felicitas D. Goodman
How About Demons?: Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World

How About Demons?: Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World

by Felicitas D. Goodman

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Quite an interesting book... " —Religious Studies Review

It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years." —The American Rationalist

... Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatment of a compelling and much-debated subject." —Journal of Folklore Research

Rich in detail derived from the author's fieldwork and the anthropological literature, this work paints a picture of possession as one of the usually positive and most widespread of human religious experiences. It also details the ritual of exorcism, which is applied when things go wrong.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780253014627
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 03/04/2020
Series: Folklore Today
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 165
Sales rank: 332,565
File size: 486 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

Foreword by Linda Degh
Preface

Chapter 1 Possession’s Many Faces
Chapter 2 Spiritualism
Chapter 3 Healing in Umbanda
Chapter 4 Pentecostalism: A New Force in Christendom
Chapter 5 The Dangerous Spirits of Japan
Chapter 6 The Multiple Personality Experience and Demonic Possession
Chapter 7 The Ghosts That Kill
Chapter 8 A Legion of Demons
Chapter 9 Two Recent Cases of Demonic Possession

Conclusion How About Demons—and Other Spirits?

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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