The Devil's Party: Satanism In Modernity - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199779244 ISBN 13: 9780199779246

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2012

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The contributors to The Devils Party have established a significant foundation from which other researchers can draw inspiration. (Susan Raine, Religion)

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Recent years have seen a significant shift in the study of new religious movements. In Satanism studies, interest has moved to anthropological and historical work on groups and inviduals. Self-declared Satanism, especially as a religion with cultural production and consumption, history, and organization, has largely been neglected by academia. This volume, focused on modern Satanism as a practiced religion of life-style, attempts to reverse that trend with 12 cutting-edge essays from the emerging field of Satanism studies. Topics covered range from early literary Satanists like Blake and Shelley, to the Californian Church of Satan of the 1960s, to the radical developments that have taken place in the Satanic milieu in recent decades. The contributors analyze such phenomena as conversion to Satanism, connections between Satanism and political violence, 19th-century decadent Satanism, transgression, conspiracy theory, and the construction of Satanic scripture. A wide array of methods are employed to shed light on the Devil's disciples: statistical surveys, anthropological field studies, philological examination of The Satanic Bible, contextual analysis of literary texts, careful scrutiny of obscure historical records, and close readings of key Satanic writings. The book will be an invaluable resource for everyone interested in Satanism as a philosophical or religious position of alterity rather than as an imagined other.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199779244
• ISBN 13: 9780199779246
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Faxneld Per