Entertaining Satan

Author : John Putnam Demos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199884064
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Satan written by John Putnam Demos and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new Preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.

Author : John Demos
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195031317
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Satan written by John Demos and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on witchcraft reports and trials outside of Salem and utilizing case histories and psychological analyses, this study evaluates the incidents and trials within the context of late-seventeenth-century New England

Author : John Demos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195174844
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Satan written by John Demos and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new Preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.

Author : edward r. johnson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728372038
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deception written by edward r. johnson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is something beautiful in music, according to some scientists, "listening to music has some amazing benefits regardless of your age, health, physical or emotional state." Satan understands the benefits and power of music also. "I SOLD MY SOUL TO THE DEVIL," a phase expressed by various high-profile artist. DECEPTION investigates Satan's influence on the music and entertainment industry and some of the beliefs and practices used.

Author : Ben Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692285213
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Demons Unawares written by Ben Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining Demons Unawares is the true story of one man's plunge into the deepest depths of the occult. Tucked within his story is another story -- that of a family's weekly Saturday night "live" communication with their dead father.Ben Alexander shares his testimony and involvement with the Miller family séances from table tipping to automatic writing to trance mediumship to the highest level of psychic phenomena known as materialization. After narrowing escaping these spiritualist activities, Ben has spent the remainder of his life investigating the occult and occult practices.With sixty years of experience and study of Spiritualism behind him, Ben knows what he is talking about and is an expert in this field of study. Among contemporary notables who advocate Spiritualism are the writers of the Ghostbuster movie. Dan Aykroyd's father, Peter, reveals in his book, A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Séances, Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters, that the inspiration behind this mega-million movie came from experiences engrained in generations of the Aykroyd family -- many similar to Ben's experiences.Sadly, the ghostbuster phenomena is the dream of millions of Spiritualists who are unaware of the demons they are inviting into their lives. Millions of others, including Christians, are in contact with the supposed dead on a daily basis. Most people see this film as comedy. Scratch beneath the surface and you will discover it is about a very serious and soul-destroying topic: demon possession.In these pages Ben exposes, through personal experience and God's Word, the real person and power behind Satan's psychics.

Author : Miguel A. De La Torre
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451414811
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest for the Historical Satan written by Miguel A. De La Torre and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the figure of Satan has incarnated absolute evil. Existing alongside more intellectualist interpretations of evil, Satan has figured largely in Christian practices, devotions, popular notions of the afterlife, and fears of retribution in the beyond. Satan remains an influential reality today in many Christian traditions and in popular culture. But how should Satan be understood today? "The Quest for the Historical Satan excavates cultural, historical, religious, and morally constructed productions of evil within Christianity, from myth and legend to the complex ways people conjure the embodiment of evil and harm. De La Torre and Hernßndez are engaging sleuths as they carefully examine Satan's conception and his presence in modernity and through the ages. The wrestle with the spiritual notions of Good and Evil and justice and injustice.-Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan Professor of Theology and Women's Studies Shaw University Divinity School

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307819825
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two hundred new and challenging logic puzzles—the simplest brainteaser to the most complex paradoxes in contemporary mathematical thinking—from our topmost puzzlemaster (“the most entertaining logician who ever lived,” Martin Gardner has called him). Our guide to the puzzles is the Sorcerer, who resides on the Island of Knights and Knaves, where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie, and he introduces us to the amazing magic—logic—that enables to discover which inhabitants are which. Then, in a picaresque adventure in logic, he takes us to the planet Og, to the Island of Partial Silence, and to a land where metallic robots wearing strings of capital letters are noisily duplicating and dismantling themselves and others. The reader’s job is to figure out how it all works. Finally, we accompany the Sorcerer on an alluring tour of Infinity which includes George Cantor’s amazing mathematical insights. The tour (and the book) ends with Satan devising a diabolical puzzle for one of Cantor’s prize students—who outwits him! In sum: a devilish magician’s cornucopia of puzzles—a delight for every age and level of ability.

Author : John Demos
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670019991
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enemy Within written by John Demos and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of witch-hunting from the ancient world through the McCarthy era traces the factors that contribute to outbreaks of cultural paranoia and how people were able to accept hysteria-based beliefs about unlikely supernatural powers and occult activities. 35,000 first printing.

Author : John Demos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Satan written by John Demos and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the late 1630's and 1700 dozens of New England towns supported proceedings against witchcraft. The total of cases was over a hundred, at least forty of the defendants were put to death. Numerous additional cases went unrecorded.

Author : John Demos
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385351666
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heathen School written by John Demos and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award The astonishing story of a unique missionary project—and the America it embodied—from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive fold of Christianity and “civilization.” Its core element was a special school for “heathen youth” drawn from all parts of the earth, including the Pacific Islands, China, India, and, increasingly, the native nations of North America. If all went well, graduates would return to join similar projects in their respective homelands. For some years, the school prospered, indeed became quite famous. However, when two Cherokee students courted and married local women, public resolve—and fundamental ideals—were put to a severe test. The Heathen School follows the progress, and the demise, of this first true melting pot through the lives of individual students: among them, Henry Obookiah, a young Hawaiian who ran away from home and worked as a seaman in the China Trade before ending up in New England; John Ridge, son of a powerful Cherokee chief and subsequently a leader in the process of Indian “removal”; and Elias Boudinot, editor of the first newspaper published by and for Native Americans. From its birth as a beacon of hope for universal “salvation,” the heathen school descends into bitter controversy, as American racial attitudes harden and intensify. Instead of encouraging reconciliation, the school exposes the limits of tolerance and sets off a chain of events that will culminate tragically in the Trail of Tears. In The Heathen School, John Demos marshals his deep empathy and feel for the textures of history to tell a moving story of families and communities—and to probe the very roots of American identity.