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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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'A woman like any other' : female sodomy, hermaphroditism and witchcraft in seventeenth-century Bruges [PDF]
, 2017 This article discusses the official and popular responses to a particular sodomy trial held at Bruges in 1618 during which two women, Mayken and Magdaleene, were accused of several sexual and moral transgressions. The interrogation records of the accused
Roelens, Jonas
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Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2007 « A trip into Hell or a teen girl’s dream ? Young woman’s curious revelations in The Gascon extravagant »1637. The demonic possession of the Ursulines of Loudun enters its sensationalist stage.
Sophie Houdard
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Witchcraft, sexuality and colonization in the early modern world [PDF]
, 2013 © 1999 Cambridge University Press. Review article.Thinking with demons: the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe. By Stuart Clark. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii+827. ISBN 0–19–820001–3. £75.00.
Walsham, Alexandra
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Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies, 2018 Our research follows the demonic perspective on Avestiția′s activity and life. Considered today as a demonic character, she is highlighted by an activity defined almost exclusively against the killing of a pregnant woman or a baby, through appearances ...
Petru Adrian Danciu
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Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2017 Christian interactions with the spirit-world of African traditional religion (ATR) have remained problematic due, in part, to the failure of Christian missionaries to understand in detail the cosmology of ATR and the angelologies and demonologies of ...
Moscicke, Hans
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The hunters of humanity: creatures of horror in M. R. James's ghost stories [PDF]
, 2017 In his ghost stories, M.R. James disclosed the most irrational and fearful aspects of archaic demonology still haunting the modern world. He turns humans into prey species, hunted and haunted by repulsive insect- and spider-like demons. This paper offers
Oryshchuk, Nataliya
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Aufklärung über die Aufklärung? Anmerkungen zu Jung-Stillings Geisterkunde (1808)
Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2012 The years 1775 / 1776 constitute a turning point in the history of enlightened german theology. The physical existence of devils, wiches and spirits is denied and the dogma of original sin is disapproved.
Wolfgang Fink
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Negotiating the Unseen: Pazuzu, Jinn, and the Cultural Afterlives of Demonic Imagery [PDF]
Pharos Journal of TheologyThis article examines how hybrid supernatural figures, most notably the Mesopotamian wind demon Pazuzu and the Islamic jinn, persist, transform, and adapt as symbolic technologies for mediating fear, moral ambiguity, and the unseen.
Zuhriddin Juraev, Boburjon Rajavaliev
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