LEADER 02723nam 22007214a 450 001 9910809466603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-96652-5 010 $a9786611966522 010 $a0-226-76295-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226762951 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579187 035 $a(EBL)432299 035 $a(OCoLC)309871210 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000110180 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11142692 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110180 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10059882 035 $a(PQKB)10970890 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122048 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432299 035 $a(DE-B1597)524626 035 $a(OCoLC)1058520229 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226762951 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432299 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265978 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196652 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579187 100 $a20060601d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBelieve not every spirit $epossession, mysticism, & discernment in early modern Catholicism /$fMoshe Sluhovsky 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (385 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-76282-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-359) and index. 327 $aPossession and exorcism -- Mysticism -- Discernment -- Intersections. 330 $aFrom 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?