Believe not every spirit : possession, mysticism, & discernment in early modern Catholicism / / Moshe Sluhovsky

• Autore: Sluhovsky Moshe <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 235/.4
• Soggetto topico: Demonology; Discernment of spirits; Demoniac possession; Spirit possession; Exorcism; Mysticism
• Soggetto non controllato: possession, possessed, mystic, mysticism, discernment, discerning, catholicism, catholics, religion, religious, christianity, christians, faith, history, historical, demonic possessions, european, women, gender, rapture, divine love, angels and demons, spirituality, spiritual, testimonies, theology, theological, good, evil, body, soul, interiority, exteriority, demonology, exorcism, contemplation, sexuality, sexual misconduct, ritual, convent
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-359) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Possession and exorcism -- Mysticism -- Discernment -- Intersections.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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? </P
• Titolo autorizzato: Believe not every spirit
• ISBN: 1-281-96652-5; 9786611966522; 0-226-76295-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809466603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II