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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453550603321

Autore

Goodman Felicitas D

Titolo

How about demons? : possession and exorcism in the modern world / / Felicitas D. Goodman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, [Indiana] ; ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : , : Indiana University Press, , 1988

©1988

ISBN

0-253-01462-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 p.)

Collana

Folklore Today

Disciplina

291.2/16

Soggetti

Demoniac possession

Exorcism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; FOREWORD; 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

Sommario/riassunto

""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 ResearchRich 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,