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Pages: 475
Authors: Gareth Medway
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A frequent writer on comparative religion and the history of occultism, Medway begins by exploring what a Satanist is and why people worship Satan, then looks a
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Authors: Kembrew McLeod
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Profiles the most notorious mischief makers in Western culture from 1600 to the present day and explores how pranks are part of a long tradition of speaking tru
Children of Lucifer
Language: en
Pages: 633
Authors: Ruben van Luijk
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-02 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and p
The Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol 2
Language: en
Pages: 481
Authors: Christopher Partridge
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The Re-Enchantment of the West challenges those theories that predict widespread secularization beyond traditional institutional religiosity. Spiritualities are
The Lure of the Sea
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: Alain Corbin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-01-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Corbin argues that with few exceptions people living before the eighteenth century knew nothing of the attractions of the coast, the visual delight of the sea,