Believe not every spirit : possession, mysticism, & discernment in early modern Catholicism /

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Author / Creator:	Sluhovsky, Moshe, 1958-
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 374 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Demonology. Discernment of spirits. Demoniac possession. Spirit possession. Exorcism. Mysticism. Demoniac possession. Demonology. Discernment of spirits. Exorcism. Mysticism. Spirit possession. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11187163

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ISBN:	9780226762951 0226762955 1281966525 9781281966520 9780226762821 0226762823 9786611966522 6611966528
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-359) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	From 1400 through 1700, the number of reports of demonic possessions among European women was extraordinarily high. During the same period, a new type of mysticism?popular with women?emerged that greatly affected the risk of possession and, as a result, the practice of exorcism. Many feared that in moments of rapture, women, who had surrendered their souls to divine love, were not experiencing the work of angels, but rather the ravages of demons in disguise. So how then, asks Moshe Sluhovsky, were practitioners of exorcism to distinguish demonic from divine possessions? Drawing on unexplored a.
Other form:	Print version: Sluhovsky, Moshe, 1958- Believe not every spirit. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226762821 0226762823

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