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How about Demons? : Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World
""Quite an interesting book ... ""--Religious Studies Review""It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years.""--The American Rationalist"" ... Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatm...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
1988.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | ""Quite an interesting book ... ""--Religious Studies Review""It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years.""--The American Rationalist"" ... Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatment of a compelling and much-debated subject.""--Journal of Folklore ResearchRich in detail derived from the author's fieldwork and the anthropological literature, this work paints a picture of possession as one of the usually positive and most widespread of human religious experiences. It also details the ritual of exorcism, |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9780253014627 |