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Christianity: Faith, Scripture and Tradition

The Devil Within

Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West

by Brian P. Levack

A historical study of demonic possession and exorcism in Europe and America, with emphasis on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Levack interprets possession as a religious performance shaped by the cultural scripts of particular communities.

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