Daemons are forever : contacts and exchanges in the Eurasian pandemonium / David Gordon White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, David Gordon, author.

Series:

Silk roads (Chicago, Ill.)

Silk roads

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demonology--History.

Demonology.

History.

Mythology, Indo-European.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

313 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Historian of religions David Gordon White's Daemons Are Forever leads the reader on a sweeping tour of Indo-European traditions by focusing on the fascinating and seemingly ubiquitous central figure of the "daemon." White's journey along the Eurasian Silk Roads undertakes a close examination of ritual and myth, connecting multiple traditions through their shared imagining of human-daemon encounters. Over the course of this rollicking study, White shows how supernatural beings predating the advent of Christianity in Europe and classical Hinduism and Buddhism in South Asia underwent several transformations over time, as different cultures appropriated these creatures and gave them new forms and uses along the way. This book is slated to become a touchstone of the field and to provoke wide-ranging, passionate discussion over the uses and abuses of comparison, as well as the proper task of cross-cultural religious history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Daemon-ology

2. Of Filth and Phylacteries

3. The Demons Are in the Details: Demonological Sciences and Technologies, East and West

4. Medieval and Modern Child Abductions

5. Odysseus in Taprobane

6. Perilous Fountains

7. Imagining a Connected History of Religions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780226692401

022669240X

9780226714905

022671490X

OCLC:

1118513392

Publisher Number:

99986231174