Evil Incarnate Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History

Name: Evil Incarnate Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History
Price: 17.92 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780691136295

ISBN-10: 0691136297

ISBN-13: 9780691136295

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Frankfurter

List price: $37.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

2 new & used from $17.92

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. Conspiracy theories abounded about groups who were allegedly abusing children in day-care centers, impregnating girls for infant sacrifice, brainwashing adults, and even controlling the highest levels of government. As historian of religions David Frankfurter listened to these sinister theories, it occurred to him how strikingly similar they were to those that swept parts of the early Christian world, early modern Europe, and postcolonial Africa. He began to investigate the social and psychological patterns that give rise to these myths. Thus was bornEvil Incarnate, a riveting analysis of the mythology of…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.13" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction


Sorting Out Resemblances


Circumstances for Imagining Evil


Evil in the Perspective of This Book



An Architecture for Chaos: The Nature and Function of Demonology


Thinking with Demons


Demonology, Lists, and Temples


Beyond the Temple: Demonology among Scribes and Ritual Experts


Conclusions



Experts in the Identification of Evil


Prophets, Exorcists, and the Popular Reception of Demonology


Witch-Finders: Charisma in the Discernment of Evil


The Possessed as Discerners of Evil


Contemporary Forms of Expertise in the Discernment of Evil: Secular and Religious


Conclusions: Expertise and the Depiction of Satanic Conspiracy



Rites of Evil: Constructions of Maleficent Religion and Ritual


Ritual as a Point of Otherness


Ritual and the Monstrous Realm


Ritual as a Point of Danger


The Implications of Evil Rites



Imputations of Perversion


The Imaginative Resources of the Monstrous


Constructing the Monstrous


Conclusions



The Performance of Evil


Performance and Demonic Realms


Direct Mimetic Performance


Indirect Mimetic Performance


Direct Mimetic Parody


Conclusions



Mobilizing against Evil


Contemplating Evil, Chasing Evil


Matters of Fact and Fantasy


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index