Believe not every spirit : possession, mysticism, & discernment in early modern Catholicism / Moshe Sluhovsky.

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Sluhovsky, Moshe, 1958-

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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (x, 374 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780226762951
0226762955
1281966525
9781281966520
9786611966522
6611966528

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Believe not every spirit.DDC classification:

235/.4 22

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BT975 .S58 2007eb

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Contents:

Possession and exorcism -- Mysticism -- Discernment -- Intersections.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-359) and index.

Possession and exorcism -- Mysticism -- Discernment -- Intersections.

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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.

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