Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology

Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology
Title Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology PDF eBook
Author Gábor Klaniczay
Publisher Central European University Press
Pages 295
Release 2006-10-10
Genre History
ISBN 9637326766

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This is the second volume of a series of three, containing seventeen essays of altogether forty-three articles based on the topics of the interdisciplinary conference held on "Demons, spirits, and witches" in Budapest. Recognized historians, ethnologists, folklorists coming from four continents present the latest research findings on the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. After a first volume, published in 2005, on "Communicating with the Spirits", the studies in the present volume examine the manifold interchanges between learned and popular culture, and its repercussions on magical belief-system and the changing figure of the witch. Book jacket.

Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions

Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions
Title Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions PDF eBook
Author G bor Klaniczay
Publisher Central European University Press
Pages 370
Release 2008-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9789637326875

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Scientific approach to esoteric and mystical themes.

Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures

Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures
Title Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures PDF eBook
Author Theresa Bane
Publisher McFarland
Pages 417
Release 2014-01-10
Genre Religion
ISBN 0786488948

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This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification of the southern wind and thunder clouds in Sumero-Akkadian mythology, entries offer descriptions of each demon's origins, appearance and cultural significance. Also included are descriptions of the demonic and diabolical members making up the hierarchy of Hell and the numerous species of demons that, according to various folklores, mythologies, and religions, populate the earth and plague mankind. Very thoroughly indexed.

Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions

Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions
Title Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions PDF eBook
Author Gábor Klaniczay
Publisher Central European University Press
Pages 358
Release 2008-05-10
Genre Social Science
ISBN 6155211507

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This third, concluding volume of the series publishes 14 studies and the transcription of a round-table discussion on Carlo Ginzburg's Ecstasies. The themes of the previous two volumes, Communicating with the Spirits, and Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology, are further expanded here both as regards their interdisciplinary approach and the wide range of regional comparisons. While the emphasis of the second volume was on current popular belief and folklore as seen in the context of the historical sources on demonology, this volume approaches its subject from the point of view of historical anthropology. The greatest recent advances of witchcraft research occurred recently in two fields: (1) deciphering the variety of myths and the complexity of historical processes which lead to the formation of the witches' Sabbath, (2) the micro-historical analysis of the social, religious, legal and cultural milieu where witchcraft accusations and persecutions developed. These two themes are completed by some further insights into the folklore of the concerned regions which still carries the traces of the traumatic historical memories of witchcraft persecutions.

Communicating with the Spirits

Communicating with the Spirits
Title Communicating with the Spirits PDF eBook
Author Éva Pócs
Publisher Central European University Press
Pages 304
Release 2005-06-15
Genre History
ISBN 6155053561

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Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation—trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.Recognized historians and ethnologists analyze the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. The essays address links between rites and beliefs, folklore and literature; the legacy of various pre-Christian mythologies; the syncretic forms of ancient, medieval and modern belief- and rite-systems; "pure" examples from religious-ethnological research outside Europe to elucidate European problems.

In the Company of Demons

In the Company of Demons
Title In the Company of Demons PDF eBook
Author Armando Maggi
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 257
Release 2006-06
Genre History
ISBN 0226501302

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In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all classical deities, demi-gods, and spiritual creatures, including the gods of the household, the lares and penates. But Armando Maggi, an expert in Renaissance demonology, argues throughout In the Company of Demons that the great thinkers of the Italian Renaissance had a more nuanced and perhaps less sinister interpretation of these creatures or spiritual bodies. Through close readings of Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Strozzi Cigogna, Pompeo della Barba, Ludovico Sinistrari, and others, Mag.

Biblical Demonology

Biblical Demonology
Title Biblical Demonology PDF eBook
Author Merrill F. Unger
Publisher Kregel Publications
Pages 268
Release 1994-04-15
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780825493973

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"The supreme merit of Biblical Demonology is that it holds closely to the Word of God. . . . It will remain for many years to come the standard treatment of biblical demonology." —Dr. Wilbur M. Smith