Witchcraft, Healing, and Popular Diseases - New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology

Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 set, Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology , extends the earlier volumes by bringing together the most important articles of the past twenty years and covering the profound changes in scholarly perspective over the past two decades. Featuring thematically organized papers from a broad spectrum of publications, the volumes in this set encompass the key issues and approaches to witchcraft research in fields such as gender studies, anthropology, sociology, literature, history, psychology, and law. This new collection provides students and researchers with an invaluable resource, comprising the most important and influential discussions on this topic. A useful introductory essay written by the editor precedes each volume.

List of contents

Vandermeersch, Patrick. The Victory of Psychiatry over Demonology: The Origins of the Nineteenth-Century Myth. History of Psychiatry 2 (1991). Geyer-Kordesch, Johanna. Whose Enlightenment? Medicine, Witchcraft, Melancholia and Pathology. In Roy Porter, ed., Medicine in the Enlightenment (Atlanta, GA: Rodopi Bv Editions, 1995). Henningsen, Gustav. Witchcraft Prosecutions After the End of the Era of the Witch Trials: A Contribution to Danish Ethnology. ARV Scandinavian Yearbook of Folklore 44 (1988). Fiume, Giovanna. The Old Vinegar Lady, or the Judicial Modernization of the Crime of Witchcraft. In Edward Muir and Guido Ruggiero, eds., History from Crime (Selections from Quaderni Storici), (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994). Brims, John. The Ross-Shire Witchcraft Case of 1822. Review of Scottish Culture 5 (1989). MacGrath, Thomas. Fairy Faith and Changelings: The Burning of Bridget Cleary in 1895. Studies 71 (1982). Schiffmann, Aldona Christina. The Witch and Crime: The Persecution of Witches in Twentieth-Century Poland. ARV Scandinavian Yearbook of Folklore 43 (1987). Davies, Owen. Methodism, the Clergy, and the Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic. History 82 (1997). Corrêa de Melo, Maria Christina. Witchcraft in Portugal during the Eighteenth Century Analysed Through the Accusations of the Tribunal Santo Oficio de Évora. Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 303 (1992). Bushaway, B. 'Tacit, Unsuspected, but Still Implicit Faith': Alternative Belief in Nineteenth-Century Rural England. In T. Harris, ed., Popular Culture in England c. 1500-1850 (Houndmills, UK: Pagrave, 1995). Davies, Owen. Urbanization and the Decline of Witchcraft: An Examination of London. Journal of Social History 30 (1997). Davies, Owen. Hag-Riding in Nineteenth-Century West Country England and Modern Newfoundland: An Examination of an Experience-Centered Witchcraft Tradition. Folk Life 35 (1996-97). Worobec, C.D. Witchcraft Beliefs in Pre-Revolutionary Russi and Ukrainian Villages. Russian Review 54 (1995). Harring, Sidney L. Red Lilac of the Cayugas: Traditional Indian Laws and Culture Conflict in a Witchcraft Trial in Buffalo, New York, 1930. New York History 73 (1992). Sebald, Hans. Nazi Ideology Redefining Deviants: Witches, Himmler's Witch-Trial Survey and the Case of the Bishopric of Bamberg. Deviant Behaviour 10 (1989). Davies, Owen. Newspapers and Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic in the Modern Period. Journal of British Studies 37 (1998) Sebald, Hans. Justice by Magic: Witchcraft as Social Control Among Franconian Peasants. Deviant Behavior 7 (1986). Niehaus, Isak A. The ANC's Dilemma: The Symbolic Politics of Three Witch-Hunts in the South African Lowveld, 1990-1995. African Studies Review 41 (1998). Geschiere, P. Child-Witches Against the Authority of Their Elders: Anthropology and History in the Analysis of Witchcraft Beliefs Among the Maka. In R. Scholfield, et al., eds., Man, Meaning and History (The Hague, the Netherlands: 1980). Fisiy, Cyprian F. Containing Occult Practices: Witchcraft Trials in Cameroon. African Studies Review 41 (1998). Meyer, Birgit. If You are a Devil You Are a Witch and if You Are a Witch You are a Devil,--The Integration of 'Pagan' ideas into the Conceptual Universe of Ewe Christians in Southeastern Ghana. Journal of Religion in Africa 22 (1992).

About the author

Brian P. Levack is John Green Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. A former Guggenheim Fellow, his other writings on witchcraft include Articleson Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology (1992), TheWitch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (1995), and Witchcraftand Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and NineteenthCenturies (1999). Dr. Levack is also a specialist in the history of early modern England and Scotland, and has written several books on the subject.

Summary

Gathering together literature on witchcraft-related issues published between 1990 and 2000, this six-volume set focuses on issues such as gender, government and law, the culture of religion and the occult.

Product details

• Authors: Brian P. Levack
• Assisted by: Brian P. Levack (Editor), Brian P. Levack (Introduction)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2001
• EAN: 9780815336747
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3674-7
• No. of pages: 338
• Weight: 790 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Witchcraft, RELIGION / Wicca, RELIGION / Demonology & Satanism, Satanism & demonology, Satanism and demonology