Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism Tapa dura - 2016

Oxford University Press, 2016-06-01. 1. Used - Very Good. A copy that may have been read, very minimal wear and tear. May have a remainder mark.

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Hardback. New. Children of Lucifer tells the history of Satanism, from its earliest conception as polemical construct by the Christian Church to its eventual metamorphosis into an actual practiced religion.

Oxford Univ Pr, 2016. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 632 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.75 inches.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover - 1st. Edition, 7th. Print - NEW/NEW - Ruben van Luijk explores the historical origins of modern Satanism, and traces the movement's development from a concept invented by a Christian church eager to demonize its internal and external competitors to a positive (anti-)religious identity embraced by various groups in the modern West. Van Luijk offers a comprehensive intellectual history of this long and unpredictable trajectory. This story involves Romantic poets, radical anarchists, eccentric esotericists, Decadent writers, and schismatic exorcists, among others, and culminates in the establishment of the Church of Satan by carnival entertainer Anton Szandor LaVey. Yet it is more than a collection of colorful characters and unlikely historical episodes. The emergence of new attitudes toward Satan proves to be intimately linked to the ideological struggle for emancipation that transformed the West and is epitomized… Leer más

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