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ISBN: 9780300114720 0300114729 Year: 2013 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press
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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms—violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of foreign objects, displaying contempt for sacred objects, and others—exorcists were summoned to expel the evil spirits from victims’ bodies. This compelling book focuses on possession and exorcism in the Reformation period, but also reaches back to the fifteenth century and forward to our own times. Entire convents of nuns in French, Italian, and Spanish towns, 30 boys in an Amsterdam orphanage, a small group of young girls in Salem, Massachusetts—these are among the instances of demon possession in the United States and throughout Europe that Brian Levack closely examines, taking into account the diverse interpretations of generations of theologians, biblical scholars, pastors, physicians, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and historians. Challenging the commonly held belief that possession signals physical or mental illness, the author argues that demoniacs and exorcists—consciously or not—are following their various religious cultures, and their performances can only be understood in those contexts.
History of civilization --- Christian church history --- History of Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- Exorcism --- Demoniac possession --- History --- -235.222 --- -Evil spirits, Expulsion of --- Expulsion of evil spirits --- Demonology --- Rites and ceremonies --- Demonic possession --- Possession, Demoniac --- Spirit possession --- History. --- Duivelse obsessie en bezetenheid --- -History. --- 235.222 Duivelse obsessie en bezetenheid --- -235.222 Duivelse obsessie en bezetenheid --- Evil spirits, Expulsion of --- 235.222 --- Exorcismes --- Possédés
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ISBN: 9783402040768 340204076X Year: 2008 Volume: 97 Publisher: Münster Aschendorff
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Exorcism --- Demoniac possession --- Early works to 1800 --- History and criticism --- Liturgy --- Texts --- Menghi, Girolamo, --- Eynatten, Maximilien de, --- Catholic Church --- 264-066 --- 248.221 --- 235.222 --- 262.157 --- Bezweringen. Duivelbezwering. Exorcisme --- Obsessie en bezetenheid --- Duivelse obsessie en bezetenheid --- Duivelbezweerders. Exorcisten --- 262.157 Duivelbezweerders. Exorcisten --- 235.222 Duivelse obsessie en bezetenheid --- 248.221 Obsessie en bezetenheid --- 264-066 Bezweringen. Duivelbezwering. Exorcisme --- Evil spirits, Expulsion of --- Expulsion of evil spirits --- Demonology --- Rites and ceremonies --- Demonic possession --- Possession, Demoniac --- Spirit possession --- Early works to 1800&delete& --- Liturgy&delete& --- Texts&delete& --- Catholic Church. --- History and criticism. --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Exorcism - Early works to 1800 - History and criticism --- Exorcism - Liturgy - Texts - History and criticism --- Demoniac possession - Early works to 1800 - History and criticism --- Menghi, Girolamo, - 1529-1609 - Flagellum daemonum --- Menghi, Girolamo, - 1529-1609 - Fustis daemonum --- Eynatten, Maximilien de, - -1631 - Manuale exorcismorum
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