Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology
(Demons, Spirits, Witches, Volume II)
The editors:
Éva Pócs is professor at Janus Pannonius
University, Pécs, Hungary, renowned scholar of
historical anthropology, authority on folk beliefs in
East Central Europe. Author of Between the Living and
the Dead, published by CEU Press in 1998.
Gábor Klaniczay is professor at the Central
European University, and at Eötvös Loránd
University, Budapest. Taught and did research at the
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
and the Sorbonne in Paris, at the Wissenschaftskolleg
zu Berlin, the Getty Center for Arts and the Humanities,
Santa Monica etc.
This is the second volume of a series of three. The
authors—recognized historians, ethnologists, folklorists
coming from four continents—present the latest research
findings on the relationship, coexistence and conflicts
of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology
and demonology in medieval and modern Europe.
The present volume focuses on the divergence between
Western and Eastern evolution, on the different relationship
of learned demonology to popular belief systems in the
two parts of Europe. It discusses the conflict of saints,
healers, seers, shamans with the representatives of
evil; the special function of escorting, protecting,
possessing, harming and healing spirits; the role of
the dead, the ghosts, of pre-Christian, Jewish and Christian
spirit-world, the antagonism of the devil and the saint.
The first volume was: Communicating with the Spirits. The third volume will be: Witchcraft Mythologies and
Persecutions.
Contents
Introduction by Gábor
Klaniczay and Éva Pócs; Part I Learned Demonology, Images of the Devil Benedek Láng, Demons in Krakow, and Image Magic in a Magical Handbook; Anna Kuznetsova, "A Wall of Bronze" or Demons versus Saints: Whose Victory?; Erzsébet Tatai, An Iconographical Approach to Representations of the Devil in Medieval Hungary; György E. Szőnyi, Talking With Demons. Early Modern Theories and Practice; Éva Szacsvay, Protestant Devil Figures in Hungary; Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, The Devil and Birthgiving
Part II Exchanges between Elite and Popular Concepts Karen P. Smith, Serpent-damsels and Dragon-slayers: Overlapping Divinities in a Medieval Tradition; Wanda Wyporska, Jewish, Noble, German, or Peasant? - The Devil in Early Modern Poland; Jonas Liliequist, Sexual Encounters with Spirits and Demons in Early Modern Sweden: Popular and Learned Concepts in Conflict and Interaction; Soili-Maria Eklund, Church Demonology and Popular Beliefs in Early Modern Sweden; Part III Evil Magic and Demons in East European and Asian Folklore Ilana Rosen, Saintly and Sympathetic Magic in the Lore of the Jews of Carpatho-Russia Between the Two World Wars; Monika Kropej, Magic as Reflected in Slovenian Folk Tradition and Popular Healing Today; L’upcho S. Risteski, Categories of the “Evil Dead" in Macedonian Folk Religion; Anna Plotnikova, Balkan Demons’ Protecting Places; Vesna Petreska, Demons of Fate in Macedonian Folk Beliefs; Zmago Šmitek, Gog and Magog in the Slovenian Folk Tradition; Ágnes Birtalan, Systematization of the Concept of Demonic and Evil in Mongolian Folk Religion; List of Contributors Index
2006
292 pages
ISBN 978-963-7326-76-9 cloth $45.00 / €31.95 /
£21.95
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