Believe not every spirit : possession, mysticism, & discernment in early modern Catholicism /
Sluhovsky, Moshe, 1958-
Believe not every spirit : possession, mysticism, & discernment in early modern Catholicism / Moshe Sluhovsky. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - 1 online resource (x, 374 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-359) and index.
Possession and exorcism -- Mysticism -- Discernment -- Intersections.
From 1400 through 1700, the number of reports of demonic possessions among European women was extraordinarily high. During the same period, a new type of mysticism?popular with women?emerged that greatly affected the risk of possession and, as a result, the practice of exorcism. Many feared that in moments of rapture, women, who had surrendered their souls to divine love, were not experiencing the work of angels, but rather the ravages of demons in disguise. So how then, asks Moshe Sluhovsky, were practitioners of exorcism to distinguish demonic from divine possessions? Drawing on unexplored a.
English.
9780226762951 (electronic bk.) 0226762955 (electronic bk.) 1281966525 9781281966520 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) 9786611966522 6611966528
10.7208/9780226762951 doi
75BBC639-A5B3-440A-8632-2F3D78C91BC4 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Demonology.
Discernment of spirits.
Demoniac possession.
Spirit possession.
Exorcism.
Mysticism.
Démonologie.
Discernement des esprits.
Possession diabolique.
Possession par les esprits.
Exorcisme.
Mysticisme.
mysticism.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Spiritual Warfare.
RELIGION--Christian Theology--Angelology & Demonology.
Demoniac possession.
Demonology.
Discernment of spirits.
Exorcism.
Mysticism.
Spirit possession.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BT975 / .S58 2007eb
235/.4
Believe not every spirit : possession, mysticism, & discernment in early modern Catholicism / Moshe Sluhovsky. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - 1 online resource (x, 374 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-359) and index.
Possession and exorcism -- Mysticism -- Discernment -- Intersections.
From 1400 through 1700, the number of reports of demonic possessions among European women was extraordinarily high. During the same period, a new type of mysticism?popular with women?emerged that greatly affected the risk of possession and, as a result, the practice of exorcism. Many feared that in moments of rapture, women, who had surrendered their souls to divine love, were not experiencing the work of angels, but rather the ravages of demons in disguise. So how then, asks Moshe Sluhovsky, were practitioners of exorcism to distinguish demonic from divine possessions? Drawing on unexplored a.
English.
9780226762951 (electronic bk.) 0226762955 (electronic bk.) 1281966525 9781281966520 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) 9786611966522 6611966528
10.7208/9780226762951 doi
75BBC639-A5B3-440A-8632-2F3D78C91BC4 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Demonology.
Discernment of spirits.
Demoniac possession.
Spirit possession.
Exorcism.
Mysticism.
Démonologie.
Discernement des esprits.
Possession diabolique.
Possession par les esprits.
Exorcisme.
Mysticisme.
mysticism.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Spiritual Warfare.
RELIGION--Christian Theology--Angelology & Demonology.
Demoniac possession.
Demonology.
Discernment of spirits.
Exorcism.
Mysticism.
Spirit possession.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BT975 / .S58 2007eb
235/.4