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Understanding the dark side : western demonology, satanic panics and alien abduction : an inaugural lecture delivered at University College Chester on 24 June 2004 / Chrisopher Partridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Partridge, Chrisopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unidentified flying objects--Religious aspects.
- Unidentified flying objects.
- Demonology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (72 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chester, [England] : Chester Academic Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This lecture discusses personifications of evil in the Hebrew Bible and in early Christian belief, showing how Jewish apocalyptic demonology shaped Western thought in this area. It then considers the depiction of the malevolent alien in both popular culture and in UFO religions, showing how both owe much to the history of Christian demonology, despite the origins of much of the latter in theosophical thought, and concludes with a discussion of the reptilian agendas of certain other contemporary belief systems.
- Contents:
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Introduction
- Demonology in the West
- Demonising the extraterrestrial in religious discourse
- The reptilian agenda
- Conclusion
- References
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 26, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781908258656
- 1908258659
- OCLC:
- 905371789
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