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



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Autore: Sluhovsky Moshe <1958-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Believe not every spirit : possession, mysticism, & discernment in early modern Catholicism / / Moshe Sluhovsky Visualizza cluster
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
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-96652-5
9786611966522
0-226-76295-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809466603321
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