| Description |
1 online resource (x, 374 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-359) and index. |
| Contents |
Possession and exorcism -- Mysticism -- Discernment -- Intersections. |
| Summary |
From 1400 through 1700, the number of reports of demonic possessions among European women was extraordinarily high. During the same period, a new type of mysticism?popular with women?emerged that greatly affected the risk of possession and, as a result, the practice of exorcism. Many feared that in moments of rapture, women, who had surrendered their souls to divine love, were not experiencing the work of angels, but rather the ravages of demons in disguise. So how then, asks Moshe Sluhovsky, were practitioners of exorcism to distinguish demonic from divine possessions? Drawing on unexplored a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Demonology.
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Demonology. |
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Discernment of spirits.
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Discernment of spirits. |
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Demoniac possession.
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Demoniac possession. |
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Spirit possession.
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Spirit possession. |
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Exorcism.
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Exorcism. |
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Mysticism.
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Mysticism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sluhovsky, Moshe, 1958- Believe not every spirit. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226762821 0226762823 (DLC) 2006018189 (OCoLC)70062966 |
| ISBN |
9780226762951 (electronic book) |
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0226762955 (electronic book) |
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1281966525 |
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9781281966520 |
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9780226762821 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226762823 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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