The Devil Within

Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Church, Church History, Theology
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Author: Brian Levack ISBN: 9780300195385
Publisher: Yale University Press Publication: April 22, 2013
Imprint: Yale University Press Language: English
Author: Brian Levack
ISBN: 9780300195385
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: April 22, 2013
Imprint: Yale University Press
Language: English
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms—violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of foreign objects, displaying contempt for sacred objects, and others—exorcists were summoned to expel the evil spirits from victims’ bodies. This compelling book focuses on possession and exorcism in the Reformation period, but also reaches back to the fifteenth century and forward to our own times.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms—violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of foreign objects, displaying contempt for sacred objects, and others—exorcists were summoned to expel the evil spirits from victims’ bodies. This compelling book focuses on possession and exorcism in the Reformation period, but also reaches back to the fifteenth century and forward to our own times.

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