Author: Marc Lits
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789058674098
Category : Film novelizations
Languages : fr
Pages : 252

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Author: Faxneld
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199913536
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Satanism is a phenomenon that has existed as a prominent trope since very beginning of Christianity, when the Church Fathers entertained fantasies about people worshipping the Devil and indulging in macabre rituals. In the early modern period, similarly unfounded ideas led to the infamous witch trials which transpired primarily between 1400 and 1700. In the 1980s and 1990s, what has been labelled a "Satanic Panic" swept the United States and parts of Europe, with again, unfounded rumors about secret Satanist networks committing gruesome murders, kidnappings and ritualistic child abuse. Today, the so called Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories in the United States again draw on these motifs, this time postulating that left-wing Satanists are secretly manipulating politics and doing nefarious deeds in the shadows. This book, however, is only indirectly concerned with the purely fictional Satanism of such paranoid fantasies. It does not deal directly with the literary tradition of Satanism either, where Satanists can appear as antagonists (or, more rarely, protagonists) in the plot of a story, or authors express Satanic sympathies in a poem or two. Rather, our selection of source texts focuses on actual, existing Satanic groups, and thinkers of importance to the emergence of a Satanic milieu that forms part of a broader landscape of alternative religion. Some of the texts do in a sense belong to the above-mentioned categories, e.g., Léo Taxil's spoof on conspiracy theories, or the quite literary pseudo-histories of Satanism - in fact Satanic tracts in disguise of Jules Michelet and Stanislaw Przybyszewski, but we have aimed to concentrate on 1. self-designated Satanic groups and ideologists, 2. groups and ideologists who prominently revere a figure they identify with Satan, even though they may not self-designate as Satanists, and 3. groups and ideologists mostly excluding, however, literary texts and conspiracy theories whose re-interpretations of Satan were crucial to the growth of such ideas--

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Publisher: TheBookEdition
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Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Pascaline Nolot
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782383491248
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 0

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Author: Ruben van Luijk
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190275111
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 633

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If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal. At its most sinister, its adherents are worshippers of evil incarnate and engage in violent and perverse secret rituals, the details of which mainstream society imagines with a fascination verging on the obscene. Children of Lucifer debunks these facile characterizations by exploring the historical origins of modern Satanism. Ruben van Luijk traces the movement's development from a concept invented by a Christian church eager to demonize its internal and external competitors to a positive (anti-)religious identity embraced by various groups in the modern West. Van Luijk offers a comprehensive intellectual history of this long and unpredictable trajectory. This story involves Romantic poets, radical anarchists, eccentric esotericists, Decadent writers, and schismatic exorcists, among others, and culminates in the establishment of the Church of Satan by carnival entertainer Anton Szandor LaVey. Yet it is more than a collection of colorful characters and unlikely historical episodes. The emergence of new attitudes toward Satan proves to be intimately linked to the ideological struggle for emancipation that transformed the West and is epitomized by the American and French Revolutions. It is also closely connected to secularization, that other exceptional historical process which saw Western culture spontaneously renounce its traditional gods and enter into a self-imposed state of religious indecision. Children of Lucifer makes the case that the emergence of Satanism presents a shadow history of the evolution of modern civilization as we know it. Offering the most comprehensive account of this history yet written, van Luijk proves that, in the case of Satanism, the facts are much more interesting than the fiction.

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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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Author: William GROFF
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244414807
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Author: Société des américanistes de Paris
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Category : America
Languages : fr
Pages : 840

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Author: Luke Mahe
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471700968
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 234

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Le monde de Delta est divisé en trois continents dénommés Terra, Aqua et Ventus où cohabitent Humains, Selkies et Yukies. A cette époque pacifiste, ceux-ci ignorent la nouvelle menace des magibots, des robots humanoïdes d'une puissance destructrice. A l'aide de la mercenaire Shanoa Ming, l'inventeur Layle Renzo découvrira leur véritable origine.

Author: Ann Lecercle
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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