Satanism

A comprehensive history by a leading sociologist of new religious movements, published in Brill's Aries series. Introvigne distinguishes between actual Satanist groups and the anti-Satanist narratives that have often outweighed them, tracing both from seventeenth-century France through the nineteenth-century occult revival to the Church of Satan, later organisations and the moral panics of the late twentieth century. Detailed and authoritative.