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  title info:
    title: Sociology of Exorcism in Late Modernity
  name:
    name part: Giordan, Giuseppe.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Possamai, Adam.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 127 p. 5 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides a sociological understanding of the phenomenon of exorcism and an analysis of the reasons for its contemporary re-emergence and impact on various communities. It argues that exorcism has become a religious commodity with the potential to strengthen a religion's attraction to adherents, whilst also ensuring its hold. It shows that due to intense competition between religious groups in our multi-faith societies, religious groups are now competing for authority over the supernatural by 'branding' their particular type of exorcism ritual in order to validate the strength of their own belief system. Sociology of Exorcism in Late Modernity features a detailed case-study of a Catholic exorcist in the south of Europe who dealt with more than 1,000 cases during a decade of work, and includes observations made by the authors of this book during their attendance at an exorcist ritual.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Sociology of Exorcism -- 3. Case Study of Catholic Exorcism: Visiting an Exorcist -- 4. Case Study of Catholic Exorcism: Undergoing Exorcism -- 5. Religious Competition over Exorcism -- 6. The Over-policing, and Decriminalizing, of the Devil .
  note: by Giuseppe Giordan, Adam Possamai.
  subject:
    topic: Religion and sociology
  subject:
    topic: Catholic Church
  subject:
    topic: Psychology and religion
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Religion
  subject:
    topic: Religion and Society
  subject:
    topic: Catholicism
  subject:
    topic: Religion and Psychology
  classification: BL60
  classification: 306.6
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319717739
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71773-9
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    record creation date: 171212
    record change date: 20190625192119.0
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