Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits 'Small Gods' at the Margins of Christendom /

This book examines the fairies, demons, and nature spirits haunting the margins of Christendom from late-antique Egypt to early modern Scotland to contemporary Amazonia. Contributions from anthropologists, folklorists, historians and religionists explore Christian strategies of encompassment and mar...

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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Social history.
History.
ISBN:9781137585202
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Introduction: Where've all the Good People Gone?; Michael Ostling
  • Part I: Demonization and its Discontents
  • 2. The Threat of Headless Beings: Constructing the Demonic in Christian Egypt; David Frankfurter
  • 3. Secrets of the Síd: The Supernatural in Medieval Irish Texts; Lisa Bitel
  • 4. The Good, the Bad, and the Unholy: Ambivalent Angels in the Middle Ages; Coree Newman
  • 5. Between Fallen Angels and Nature Spirits: Russian Demonology of the Early Modern Period; Dmitriy Antonov
  • 6. Crisis at the Border: Amazonian Relations with Spirits and Others; Artionka Capiberibe
  • Part II: Enlightenment and Its Ambiguities
  • 7. Between Humans and Angels: Scientific Uses for Fairies in Early Modern Scotland; Julian Goodare
  • 8. The Álfar, the Clerics, and the Enlightenment: Conceptions of the Supernatural in the Age of Reason in Iceland; Terry Gunnell
  • 9. The Devil and the Spirit World In Nineteenth-Century Estonia: From Christianization to Folklorization; Ülo Valk
  • 10. Dreaming of Snakes in Contemporary Zambia: Small Gods and the Secular; Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps
  • Part III: Remnants, Relocations, and Re-Enchantments
  • 11. Small Gods, Small Demons. Remnants of an Archaic fairy Cult in Central and South-Eastern Europe; Éva Pócs
  • 12. Who Owns the World? Recognizing the Repressed Small Gods of Southeast Asia; Lorraine V. Aragon
  • 13. Spirits, Christians and Capitalists in the Rainforests of Papua New Guinea; Michael Wood
  • 14. "Reconnecting to Everything:" Fairies in Contemporary Paganism; Sabina Magliocco
  • 15. Afterword; Ronald Hutton.

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