LEADER 04633oam 2200733 450 001 9910299800403321 005 20220209131113.0 010 $a9781137585202$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a113758520X$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z1137585196 010 $z9781137585196 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-58520-2 035 $a(OCoLC)1013822367$z(OCoLC)1013481946$z(OCoLC)1017796428$z(OCoLC)1027625263$z(OCoLC)1066572197$z(OCoLC)1086420554$z(OCoLC)1115080200$z(OCoLC)1122813151$z(OCoLC)1126168178$z(OCoLC)1162790093$z(OCoLC)1203989957 035 $a(OCoLC)on1013822367 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000223174 100 $a20171202h20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu---unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aFairies, demons, and nature spirits $e'Small Gods' at the margins of Christendom /$fedited by Michael Ostling 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK,$d[2018] 210 4$d©2018 215 $a1 online resource (369 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic 311 08$aPrint version: Ostling, Michael. Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits : 'Small Gods' at the Margins of Christendom. London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, ©2017 9781137585196 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: Where've all the Good People Gone?; Michael Ostling.- Part I: Demonization and its Discontents.- 2. The Threat of Headless Beings: Constructing the Demonic in Christian Egypt; David Frankfurter -- 3. Secrets of the Si?d: The Supernatural in Medieval Irish Texts; Lisa Bitel.- 4. The Good, the Bad, and the Unholy: Ambivalent Angels in the Middle Ages; Coree Newman.- 5. Between Fallen Angels and Nature Spirits: Russian Demonology of the Early Modern Period; Dmitriy Antonov.- 6. Crisis at the Border: Amazonian Relations with Spirits and Others; Artionka Capiberibe.- Part II: Enlightenment and Its Ambiguities.- 7. Between Humans and Angels: Scientific Uses for Fairies in Early Modern Scotland; Julian Goodare.- 8. The A?lfar, the Clerics, and the Enlightenment: Conceptions of the Supernatural in the Age of Reason in Iceland; Terry Gunnell -- 9. The Devil and the Spirit World In Nineteenth-Century Estonia: From Christianization to Folklorization; U?lo Valk.- 10. Dreaming of Snakes in Contemporary Zambia: Small Gods and the Secular; Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps.- Part III: Remnants, Relocations, and Re-Enchantments.- 11. Small Gods, Small Demons. Remnants of an Archaic fairy Cult in Central and South-Eastern Europe; E?va Po?cs.- 12. Who Owns the World? Recognizing the Repressed Small Gods of Southeast Asia; Lorraine V. Aragon.- 13. Spirits, Christians and Capitalists in the Rainforests of Papua New Guinea; Michael Wood.- 14. "Reconnecting to Everything:" Fairies in Contemporary Paganism; Sabina Magliocco.- 15. Afterword; Ronald Hutton. 330 $aThis book examines the fairies, demons, and nature spirits haunting the margins of Christendom from late-antique Egypt to early modern Scotland to contemporary Amazonia. Contributions from anthropologists, folklorists, historians and religionists explore Christian strategies of encompassment and marginalization, and the 'small gods' undisciplined tendency to evade such efforts at exorcism. Lurking in forest or fairy-mound, chuckling in dark corners of the home or of the demoniac's body, the small gods both define and disturb the borders of a religion that is endlessly syncretistic and in endless, active denial of its own syncretism. The book will be of interest to students of folklore, indigenous Christianity, the history of science, and comparative religion. 410 0$aPalgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic. 606 $aWitchcraft$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aMagic$zEurope 607 $aEurope$xReligion 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWitchcraft$xHistory. 615 0$aMagic 676 $a133.4/3094 701 $aOstling$b Michael$01076181 801 0$bEBLCP 801 1$bEBLCP 801 2$bOCLCO 801 2$bN$T 801 2$bYDX 801 2$bAZU 801 2$bOCLCF 801 2$bFIE 801 2$bOCLCQ 801 2$bUAB 801 2$bOCLCQ 801 2$bU3W 801 2$bWYU 801 2$bLVT 801 2$bIDB 801 2$bMERUC 801 2$bUKAHL 801 2$bOCLCQ 801 2$bVT2 801 2$bLEATE 801 2$bOCLCQ 801 2$bDCT 912 $a9910299800403321 996 $aFairies, demons, and nature spirits$92586406 997 $aUNINA