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Short but interesting little book that take a close look at a small handful of exorcisms in 16th and 17th century France and England. The author makes no bones about his sceptical approach; he tends to categorise cases of possession as coming under mental illness, fraud, or the desire to exhibit a good (i.e. politically useful) demonstration of a particular faith. Not being religious myself, I've some sympathy with this approach! It was the use of exorcism as a political-religious tool that I

Title : Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
Author : Daniel Pickering Walker
Language : en
Rating :
4.90 out of 5 stars
Type : PDF, ePub, Kindle
Uploaded : Apr 03, 2021

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