Satanism : : a social history / / by Massimo Introvigne.
A 17th-century French haberdasher invented the Black Mass. An 18th-century English Cabinet Minister administered the Eucharist to a baboon. High-ranking Catholic authorities in the 19th century believed that Satan appeared in Masonic lodges in the shape of a crocodile and played the piano there. A w...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Aries Book Series
21. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (665 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- France: Satan in the Courtroom
- Sweden: Satan the Highway Robber
- Italy: Satan the Friar
- England: Satan the Member of Parliament
- Russia: Satan the Translator
- An Epidemic of Anti-Satanism, 1821–1870
- Around Huysmans, 1870–1891
- Satan the Freemason: The Mystification of Léo Taxil, 1891–1897
- A Satanic Underground, 1897–1952
- The Origins of Contemporary Satanism, 1952–1980
- The Great Satanism Scare, 1980–1994
- Satan the Musician: Black Metal and Satanism
- From the 20th to the 21st Century, 1994–2016
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Groups and Organizations.