In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. This book focuses on possession and exorcism in the Reformation period, and also reaches back to the fifteenth century and forward to our own ti…
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms -- violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of foreign objects, displaying con…
The author reveals his more than twenty-five-year work as a psychiatrist and exorcist, discussing his skepticism about the integration of psychiatry and religion, two of his most significant cases, and his beliefs about free will and evil.
The author reveals his more than twenty-five-year work as a psychiatrist and exorcist, discussing his skepticism about the integration of psychiatry and religion, two of his most significant cases, and his beliefs about free will and evil.
The author reveals his more than twenty-five-year work as a psychiatrist and exorcist, discussing his skepticism about the integration of psychiatry and religion, two of his most significant cases, and his beliefs about free will and evil.
The author reveals his more than twenty-five-year work as a psychiatrist and exorcist, discussing his skepticism about the integration of psychiatry and religion, two of his most significant cases, and his beliefs about free will and evil.
The author reveals his more than twenty-five-year work as a psychiatrist and exorcist, discussing his skepticism about the integration of psychiatry and religion, two of his most significant cases, and his beliefs about free will and evil.
Empowered writing explores the inherent powers of Chinese talismans, petitions, registers, and holy scriptures, presenting a systematic study of their exxorcistic and apotropaic properties. Using a vast arsenal of original sources, the book traces the unfolding and transformatio…