Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits 'Small Gods' at the Margins of Christendom /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ostling, Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
• Subjects: Civilization-History.; Religion-History.; World history.; Social history.; History.; Cultural History.; History of Religion.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Social History.; History of Science.

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 mar...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Where've all the Good People Gone?; Michael Ostling
• Part I: Demonization and its Discontents
• 2. The Threat of Headless Beings: Constructing the Demonic in Christian Egypt; David Frankfurter
• 3. Secrets of the Síd: The Supernatural in Medieval Irish Texts; Lisa Bitel
• 4. The Good, the Bad, and the Unholy: Ambivalent Angels in the Middle Ages; Coree Newman
• 5. Between Fallen Angels and Nature Spirits: Russian Demonology of the Early Modern Period; Dmitriy Antonov
• 6. Crisis at the Border: Amazonian Relations with Spirits and Others; Artionka Capiberibe
• Part II: Enlightenment and Its Ambiguities
• 7. Between Humans and Angels: Scientific Uses for Fairies in Early Modern Scotland; Julian Goodare
• 8. The Álfar, the Clerics, and the Enlightenment: Conceptions of the Supernatural in the Age of Reason in Iceland; Terry Gunnell
• 9. The Devil and the Spirit World In Nineteenth-Century Estonia: From Christianization to Folklorization; Ülo Valk
• 10. Dreaming of Snakes in Contemporary Zambia: Small Gods and the Secular; Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps
• Part III: Remnants, Relocations, and Re-Enchantments
• 11. Small Gods, Small Demons. Remnants of an Archaic fairy Cult in Central and South-Eastern Europe; Éva Pócs
• 12. Who Owns the World? Recognizing the Repressed Small Gods of Southeast Asia; Lorraine V. Aragon
• 13. Spirits, Christians and Capitalists in the Rainforests of Papua New Guinea; Michael Wood
• 14. "Reconnecting to Everything:" Fairies in Contemporary Paganism; Sabina Magliocco
• 15. Afterword; Ronald Hutton.