Philosophical approaches to demonology / edited by Benjamin W. McCraw and Robert Arp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCraw, Benjamin, 1984- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in the philosophy of religion ; 15.

Routledge studies in the philosophy of religion ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demonology.

Physical Description:

vi, 298 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1 [edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

In contradistinction to the many monographs and edited volumes devoted to historical, cultural, or theological treatments of demonology, this collection features newly written papers by philosophers and other scholars engaged specifically in philosophical argument, debate, and dialogue involving ideas and topics in demonology. The contributors to the volume approach the subject from the perspective of the broadest areas of Western philosophy, namely metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and moral philosophy. The collection also features a plurality of religious, cultural, and theological views on the nature of demons from both Eastern and Western thought, in addition to views that may diverge from these traditional roots. Philosophical Approaches to Demonology will be of interest to philosophers of religion, theologians, and scholars working in philosophical theology and demonology, as well as historians, cultural anthropologists, and sociologists interested more broadly in the concept of demons.

Contents:

Augustine and Aquinas on the demonic / Benjamin W. McCraw

The demonic body : demonic ontology and the domicile of the demons in Apuleius and Augustine / Seamus O'Neill

Christian demonology : a new philosophical perspective / Shandon L. Guthrie

Women as "the Devil's gateway" : a feminist critique of Christian demonology / Jeffrey A. Ewing

Socrates demonic sign (daimonion semeion) / Charlene Elsby

The ecological demon : Silent running and Interstellar / Brian Willems

Demons of seduction in early Jewish literature / Dawn Hutchinson

The jinn and the shayatin / Edward Moad

Mara : deva and demon / Christopher Ketcham

Justified belief in the existence of demons is impossible / David Kyle Johnson

Esoteric spirituality, devils, and demons : introducing the Gnostic vision of modernity / Kristina Sipova

Re-enhancement and contemporary demonology / Olli Petteri Pitkanen

Whedon's demons : the immortality of moral clarity and the ethics of moral complexity / Talia Morag

Modern representations of evil : Kant, Arendt, and the Devil in Goethe's Faust and Bulgakov's The master and Margarita / Elvira Basevich

The politics of possession : reading King James's Daemonologie through the lens of mimetic realism / Duncan Reyburn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-291) and index.

ISBN:

9781138205499

1138205494

OCLC:

974794581

Publisher Number:

40027168840

40027157077