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Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: 'Small Gods' at the Margins of Christendom (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic) - Hardcover

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9781137585196: Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: 'Small Gods' at the Margins of Christendom (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)
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ISBN 10: 1137585196 ISBN 13: 9781137585196
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

This book examines the fairies, demons, and nature spirits haunting the margins of Christendom from late-antique Egypt to early modern Scotland to contemporary Amazonia. Contributions from anthropologists, folklorists, historians and religionists explore Christian strategies of encompassment and marginalization, and the ‘small gods’ undisciplined tendency to evade such efforts at exorcism. Lurking in forest or fairy-mound, chuckling in dark corners of the home or of the demoniac’s body, the small gods both define and disturb the borders of a religion that is endlessly syncretistic and in endless, active denial of its own syncretism. The book will be of interest to students of folklore, indigenous Christianity, the history of science, and comparative religion.

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About the Author

Michael Ostling is Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University, USA, and Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, Australia. Author of Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland (2011), he writes on witchcraft, popular religion, history of emotions, theory in Religious Studies, and critical pedagogy.

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This book examines the fairies, demons, and nature spirits haunting the margins of Christendom from late-antique Egypt to early modern Scotland to contemporary Amazonia. Contributions from anthropologists, folklorists, historians and religionists explore Christian strategies of encompassment and marginalization, and the ‘small gods’ undisciplined tendency to evade such efforts at exorcism. Lurking in forest or fairy-mound, chuckling in dark corners of the home or of the demoniac’s body, the small gods both define and disturb the borders of a religion that is endlessly syncretistic and in endless, active denial of its own syncretism. The book will be of interest to students of folklore, indigenous Christianity, the history of science, and comparative religion.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1137585196
ISBN 13 
9781137585196
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
381
Editor
Ostling Michael

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