Satanism: a social history

by Introvigne, Massimo

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Full title :Satanism : a social history / by Massimo Introvigne.

Summary

A 17th-century French haberdasher invented the Black Mass. An 18th-century English Cabinet Minister administered the Eucharist to a baboon. High-ranking Catholic authorities in the 19th century believed that Satan appeared in Masonic lodges in the shape of a crocodile and played the piano there. A well-known scientist from the 20th century established a cult of the Antichrist and exploded in a laboratory experiment. Three Italian girls in 2000 sacrificed a nun to the Devil. A Black Metal band honored Satan in Krakow, Poland, in 2004 by exhibiting on stage 120 decapitated sheep heads. Some of these stories, as absurd as they might sound, were real. Others, which might appear to be equally well reported, are false. But even false stories have generated real societal reactions. For the first time, Massimo Introvigne proposes a general social history of Satanism and anti-Satanism, from the French Court of Louis XIV to the Satanic scares of the late 20th century, satanic themes in Black Metal music, the Church of Satan, and beyond.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 655 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004244962, 9004244964
oclc:ocn951833458
LC Classification:BF1548
Dewey Decimal:133.4/2209

Satanism: A Social History; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Encountering Satanism; Satanism: A Definition; Satanism, Anti-Satanism, and the Pendulum Theory; Part 1: Proto-Satanism, 17th and 18th Centuries; 1 France: Satan in the Courtroom; Satan the Witch: The Witches' Sabbath and Satanism; Satan the Exorcist: Possession Trials; Satan the Poisoner: "Black Masses" at the Court of Louis xiv; 2 Sweden: Satan the Highway Robber; 3 Italy: Satan the Friar; 4 England: Satan the Member of Parliament; 5 Russia: Satan the Translator; Part 2: Classical Satanism, 1821-1952.

6 An Epidemic of Anti-Satanism, 1821-1870A Disoriented: Fiard; A Lunatic? Berbiguier; Berbiguier's Occult Legacy; Scholars against Satan: From Görres to Mirville; A Polemist: Gougenot des Mousseaux; A Lawyer: Bizouard; Éliphas Lévi and the Baphomet; 7 Around Huysmans, 1870-1891; Satan the Archivist: Vintras; Satan the Pervert: Boullan; Boullan in Poland? Mariavites and the Occult; Satan the Journalist: Jules Bois; Satan the Author: Huysmans, Boullan, and the Satanists; Huysmans' Là-bas; Satan the Catholic Priest: The Mystery of Canon Van Haecke; Huysmans' Last Years.

8 Satan the Freemason: The Mystif…