Believe Not Every Spirit Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism

Name: Believe Not Every Spirit Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism
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ISBN: 9780226762951

ISBN-10: 0226762955

ISBN-13: 9780226762951

Edition: 2007

Authors: Moshe Sluhovsky

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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 mysticismOCopopular with womenOCoemerged 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?Drawing on unexplored accounts of mystical schools and spiritual techniques, testimonies of the possessed, and exorcism…

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List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/2007
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 384
Language: English