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- Book Title
- Demon Lovers : Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief
- ISBN
- 9780226772622
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226772624
ISBN-13
9780226772622
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2547852
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
478 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Demon Lovers : Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief
Subject
Demonology & Satanism, Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), General, Europe / General, Sociology of Religion
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Religion, Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
27.7 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
133.4/09
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Translations Introduction: Sex Fiends 1. Witchcraft Theory: Copulation with Demons as Carnal Knowledge 2. Why Women? The Malleus maleficarum 3. Sexy Devils: How They Got Bodies 4. Incredible Sex: Confronting the Difficulty of Belief 5. From Dreams to Reality: Why Witches Fly 6. Experiments with Witches 7. The Theory of Witchcraft Power 8. "This Is My Body": Witches and Desecration 9. Witches, Infanticide, and Power 10. Illusion and Reality, Part One: Crib Death and Stealthy Cats 11. Illusion and Reality, Part Two: Witches Who Steal Penises 12. Interview with the Demon: From Exorcism to Witchcraft 13. Witchcraft, Body, and Soul Conclusion: Talking around the Unspeakable Notes Works Cited Index
Synopsis
On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmännin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds of harmful magic), including killing forty--one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act--sex with a demon. Fornication with demons was a major theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy of sexual excess with her diabolical paramour Federlin "in many divers places, . . . even in the street by night." As Walter Stephens demonstrates in Demon Lovers, it was not Hausmännin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex with demons--instead, a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why? To find out, Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 1430 and 1530), including the infamous Malleus Maleficarum ( Hammer of Witches ). Far from being credulous fools or mindless misogynists, early writers on witchcraft emerge in Stephens's account as rational but reluctant skeptics, trying desperately to resolve contradictions in Christian thought on God, spirits, and sacraments that had bedeviled theologians for centuries. Proof of the physical existence of demons--for instance, through evidence of their intercourse with mortal witches--would provide strong evidence for the reality of the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, and the existence of God. Early modern witchcraft theory reflected a crisis of belief--a crisis that continues to be expressed today in popular debates over angels, Satanic ritual child abuse, and alien abduction., On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausm nnin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds of harmful magic), including killing forty--one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act--sex with a demon. Fornication with demons was a major theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy of sexual excess with her diabolical paramour Federlin "in many divers places, . . . even in the street by night." As Walter Stephens demonstrates in Demon Lovers, it was not Hausm nnin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex with demons--instead, a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why? To find out, Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 1430 and 1530), including the infamous Malleus Maleficarum ( Hammer of Witches ). Far from being credulous fools or mindless misogynists, early writers on witchcraft emerge in Stephens's account as rational but reluctant skeptics, trying desperately to resolve contradictions in Christian thought on God, spirits, and sacraments that had bedeviled theologians for centuries. Proof of the physical existence of demons--for instance, through evidence of their intercourse with mortal witches--would provide strong evidence for the reality of the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, and the existence of God. Early modern witchcraft theory reflected a crisis of belief--a crisis that continues to be expressed today in popular debates over angels, Satanic ritual child abuse, and alien abduction.
LC Classification Number
BF1572.S4S74 2003
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