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Believe not every spirit : possession, mysticism, & discernment in early modern Catholicism / Moshe Sluhovsky.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sluhovsky, Moshe, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Demonology.
- Discernment of spirits.
- Demoniac possession.
- Spirit possession.
- Exorcism.
- Mysticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From 1400 through 1700, the number of reports of demonic possessions among European women was extraordinarily high. During the same period, a new type of mysticism-popular with women-emerged that greatly affected the risk of possession and, as a result, the practice of exorcism. Many feared that in moments of rapture, women, who had surrendered their souls to divine love, were not experiencing the work of angels, but rather the ravages of demons in disguise. So how then, asks Moshe Sluhovsky, were practitioners of exorcism to distinguish demonic from divine possessions? </P
- Contents:
- Possession and exorcism
- Mysticism
- Discernment
- Intersections.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-359) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611966522
- 9781281966520
- 1281966525
- 9780226762951
- 0226762955
- OCLC:
- 309871210
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