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Articles on Demons
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Why early Protestants embraced demons and witches but turned their backs on ghosts. Listen to expert Penelope Geng on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Artists often turn to the supernatural to reflect on and speak to the anxieties brought about by social, religious and political upheaval.
Ritual bathing at the confluence of large rivers has long held special significance in Hindu rituals. Sangam, where the Ganga and Yamuna are believed to meet the fabled Saraswati, is the most revered.
Many followers of the New Apostolic Reformation − a Christian religious movement − claim they receive divine guidance in reconstructing modern society based on Christian spiritual beliefs.
The ‘Courage Tour,’ a religio-political rally, is going around battleground states. It is focused on defeating Democrats, but also on defeating ‘demonic forces.’
In recent years, the relationship between antisemitism and anti-Zionism has taken on renewed importance and competing definitions of antisemitism have emerged. What is antisemitism?
The Enlightenment saw science and rational thought replace the religious superstitions of the previous century, and demons became metaphors for the human struggle between good and evil.
Some of popular culture’s most famous ghosts and demons have roots in ancient Mesopotamia. What did ancient humans believe about the supernatural? And what stories did they tell?
The Nun II brings a refreshingly feminist gloss to well-worn tropes within exorcism fiction, shattering assumptions about who should be the victim and who should be the rescuer.
A raft of horror films remind us of the grip troubled sleep once had on our imaginations.
Religious belief in the devil may have declined, but western demons are alive and well in popular culture and contemporary politics.
A teenage domestic servant showed signs of possession, and a miller was accused of witchcraft. Considering records of these events helps clarify what we can and cannot know about the past.
A much talked-about scene from the latest Netflix horror raises important questions about how the Bible deals with mental health.
How some evangelicals use spiritual warfare to interpret the presidency of Donald Trump.
Stella Immanuel, who made headlines recently regarding a false coronavirus cure claim, has many beliefs related to how demons are a threat to humans. An expert explains their long religious history.
Stories featuring demons and sex date back to early Judaism and Christianity. They inspired the witch craze and continue to be believed by many conservative Christians in America.
The idea of organized satanic witchcraft was invented in 15th-century Europe by church and state authorities, who at first had a hard time convincing regular folks it was real.
Forty-five years ago, ‘The Exorcist’ terrified viewers with its portrayal of a practice that goes back several centuries and continues today in Christianity.
The history of why witchcraft was seen as a woman’s work.
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Associate Professor of English, Macalester College
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Visiting scholar, postdoctoral fellow in American Studies, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor in Art History, University of Plymouth
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University
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PhD Candidate/Teaching Fellow in Systematic Theology, Boston College
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Cadbury Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham
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Professor of History, Iowa State University
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Associate Professor of English, Rhode Island College
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Professor of Religion and Classics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies and Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy, University of Toronto Mississauga, University of Toronto
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Emanuel Ringelblum Professor in Jewish History, University of California, Davis
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Honorary Research Associate, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor in Classical Islamic Religious Thought and Dialogue, Trinity College Dublin