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Children of lucifer : the origins of modern religious satanism / Ruben van Luijk.
LIBRA BF1548 .L85 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luijk, Ruben van, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in Western esotericism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Satanism--History.
- Satanism.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 613 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction (mostly for academic readers)
- The Christian invention of Satanism
- Intermezzo 1. The eighteenth century: death of Satan?
- The romantic rehabilitation of Satan
- Satan in nineteenth-century counterculture
- Intermezzo 2. Charles Baudelaire: litanies to Satan
- Huysmans and consorts
- Unmasking the synagogue of Satan
- Unmasking the synagogue of Satan: continued and concluded
- Intermezzo 3. Nineteenth-century religious Satanism: fact or fiction?
- Paths into the twentieth century
- Tribulations of the early church
- Intermezzo 4. Adolescent Satanism, metal Satanism, cyber-Satanism
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-605) and index.
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: Luijk, Ruben van. Children of lucifer.
- ISBN:
- 9780190275105
- 0190275103
- OCLC:
- 933273961
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