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Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic
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ISBN: 3039289608 3039289594 Year: 2020 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their extraordinary interdisciplinarity: anthropologists, folklorists, historians, and more have contributed to build a body of work of extreme variety and consistence. Of course, this also means that the subjects themselves are not easy to assess. In a very general way, we can define witchcraft as a supernatural means to cause harm, death, or misfortune, while magic also belongs to the field of supernatural, or at least esoteric knowledge, but can be used to less dangerous effects (e.g., divination and astrology). In Western civilization, however, the witch hunt has set a very peculiar perspective in which diabolical witchcraft, the invention of the Sabbat, the persecution of many thousands of (mostly) female and (sometimes) male presumed witches gave way to a phenomenon that is fundamentally different from traditional witchcraft. This Special Issue of Religions dedicated to Witchcraft, Demonology, and Magic features nine articles that deal with four different regions of Europe (England, Germany, Hungary, and Italy) between Late Medieval and Modern times in different contexts and social milieus. Far from pretending to offer a complete picture, they focus on some topics that are central to the research in those fields and fit well in the current “cumulative concept of Western witchcraft” that rules out all mono-causality theories, investigating a plurality of causes.

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ISBN: 0521812399 9780521812443 9780521817752 9780521811064 0521811139 0521814561 0521815002 0521812445 0521817757 0521811066 9780521811620 052181605X 9780521812399 9780521814560 9780521815000 9780521816052 9780521811132 0521811627 9781139054133 9781107423633 9781139053952 9781107423701 9781139054126 9781107423695 9781139054836 9781107423619 9781139054225 9781107423640 9781139054089 9781107423671 9781139056021 9781107423664 9781139054843 9781107423688 9781139054850 9781107423749 1139054228 1316169200 1316171590 1139056026 Year: 2006 Volume: 1 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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This volume brings together in one compass the Orthodox Churches - the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople and the Russian, Armenian, Ethiopian, Egyptian and Syrian Churches. It follows their fortunes from the late Middle Ages until modern times - exactly the period when their history has been most neglected. Inevitably, this emphasises differences in teachings and experience, but it also brings out common threads, most notably the resilience displayed in the face of alien and often hostile political regimes. The central theme is the survival against the odds of Orthodoxy in its many forms into the modern era. The last phase of Byzantium proves to have been surprisingly important in this survival. It provided Orthodoxy with the intellectual, artistic and spiritual reserves to meet later challenges. The continuing vitality of the Orthodox Churches is evident for example in the Sunday School Movement in Egypt and the Zoe brotherhood in Greece.

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27 <035> --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Grote handboeken. Compendia --- Church history --- Christianity and culture --- Enlightenment. --- History. --- Eastern churches --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Europe --- History of Europe --- Christian church history --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 500-1199 --- History of Asia --- anno 500-599 --- anno 1-499 --- Ancient history --- Eglise --- Histoire --- Eglises orientales --- Histoire religieuse --- Reformation --- Counter-Reformation --- Réforme (Christianisme) --- Contre-Réforme --- 19th century --- 20th century --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Christelijke kerkgeschiedenis --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. --- Église --- Moyen âge --- Églises orientales --- Christianisme --- 1500-1660 --- Origines --- 30-600 (Eglise primitive) --- 19e siècle --- 20e siècle --- 1660-1815 --- history of Christianity --- development of Christianity --- Christian theology --- Christian intellectualism --- Christian politics --- sociology of Christian Formation --- Christian identity --- Christian communities --- Christian practices --- Christian history up to 400 AD --- the Protestant Reformation --- Catholic Reform --- Latin Christendom --- schisms in Christianity --- world history from 1660 to 1815 --- church --- state --- society --- Christian life --- intellectual movements --- social movements --- science --- Enlightenment --- French Revolution --- 1789 --- de-Christianisation --- colonialism --- missionary work --- nineteenth century Christianity --- European Christendom --- expansion of Christianity worldwide --- Catholic traditions --- Protestant traditions --- Christianity and nationalism --- new voluntary forms of Christianity --- independant Christian Churches --- cultural impact of Christianity --- Moyen âge

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