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Raising the Devil : Satanism, New Religions, and the Media /
Raising the Devil reveals how the Christian Pentecostal movement, right-wing conspiracy theories, and an opportunistic media turned grassroots folk traditions into the Satanism scare of the 1980s. During the mid-twentieth century, devil worship was seen as merely an isolated practice of medieval tim...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
2000.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : demonizing folklore
- Christian magic and diabolical medicine : the theory behind the scare
- The Jesus of Satan : deliverance and spiritualism
- Speak to the Devil : ouija boards and deliverance
- Putting the pieces together : MPD and ritual abuse narratives
- The one-world demonology : projection and conspiracy
- Brits and the Black Mass : the first "confessing witches"
- Hippie commune witchcraft blood rites : Satanic "confessions" in North America
- The Highgate Cemetery vampire hunt : grave-robbing and rumor panic
- The Great Plains cattle mutilation panic : Satanism becomes news.