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How about Demons?: Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World

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"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, which is applied when things go wrong.

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Product Details
Indiana University Press
025301462X / 9780253014627
eBook (Adobe Pdf, EPUB)
01/05/1988
English
137 pages
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