SECULARIZING DEMONS: FUNDAMENTALIST NAVIGATIONS IN RELIGION AND SECULARITY [PDF]
Zygon, 2016 Since the turn of the millennium, theologians and secular scholars of religion have increasingly begun exploring the relationship between transhumanism and religion.
O'Donnell, S. Jonathon
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‘Viral’ Hunts? A Cultural Darwinian Analysis of Witch Persecutions [PDF]
Cultural Science, 2019 The theory of Darwinian cultural evolution is gaining currency in many parts of the socio-cultural sciences, but it remains contentious. Critics claim that the theory is either fundamentally mistaken or boils down to a fancy re-description of things we ...
Hofhuis Steije, Boudry Maarten
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“Paltrie Vermin, Cats, Mise, Toads, and Weasils”: Witches, Familiars, and Human-Animal Interactions in the English Witch Trials [PDF]
Religions, 2019 This article explores the role played by the relationship between witch and familiar in the early modern witch trials. It positions animal familiars at the intersection of early modern belief in witchcraft and magic, examining demonologies, legal and ...
Helen Parish
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Ancestors are demonic - is it true? Traversing Christian demonology and African traditional religion [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 In the early 19th century, missionaries flocked to Central and Southern Africa to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Whilst interacting with the local African indigenous communities, and observing their culture and their way of life, the missionaries ...
Rev. Jacob Mokhutso
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Ce este demonologia? O altfel de viziune asupra științei demonologice [What is demnology? A different view on demonological science] [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2021 The article proposes a phenomenological vision on the history of demonology and the demonic imaginary starting with the shamanic model. Three qualities of the shaman are important in the birth of demonology: sense perception, knowledge and self-control ...
Petru Adrian Danciu
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Ethnolinguistic Nominations of Mythological Figures (demonologems) in the Kalmyk Language [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 Demonology ideas that date from the oldest and most stable folklore and mythological traditions are emphasized in multiple ethnic cultures. An early form of religion directly coupled with mythology is represented by the black faith of the Mongolian and ...
Ochirova Nyudlya Chetyrovna +4 more
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The anthropological implications of Plutarch’s eschatological myths [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2023 This paper offers a comparative discourse analysis of three eschatological myths authored by Plutarch, with special emphasis on the anthropological implications of the myths and Plutarch’s literary-philosophical ambiguity concerning the ...
Putnik Noel
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The Folklore of Icon-Painters and Art Historians: Legends about the Elder in the Iconography of the Nativity of Christ [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2020 The article focuses on the legends that surround the figure of the elder in Eastern Christian iconography of the Nativity of Christ. The records of the 17th–19th cc.
Dmitry I. Antonov
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The inquisitor and his readers: the case of the Malleus maleficarum
Bibliothecae.it, 2023 Starting from the case of the best-known manual of demonology published in the modern age, the Malleus maleficarum by Heinrich Krmer and Joakob Sprenger published for the first time in Strasbourg between 1486 and 1487, the paper studies the presence of ...
Paola Zito
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Devil or werewolf? The motif of lycanthropy in French demonology of the 15th–16th centuries
Шаги, 2023 The article analyzes the features of the treatise «Justification of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy» by Jean Petit (1408), which argued for the right of John the Fearless to murder his cousin Louis of Orleans.
O. I. Togoeva
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