Domestic Demons and the Intimate Uncanny

This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny, probing into their effects on people's domestic and intimate spheres of life.

List of contents

1 Introduction: Hedging in Demons and the Uncanny
Thomas G. Kirsch, Kirsten Mahlke, and Rijk van Dijk
2 The Familiar Spirit in Tales of Violent Labor Relationships: From Early Modern: France to Agro-Industrial Argentina
Kirsten Mahlke
3 Collective Intimacy in Pentecostal Christianity
Thomas G. Kirsch
4 Science, Fantasy, and Desecration: Gorilla Demons in Colonial Gabon
Florence Bernault
5 From Witchcraft to Satanism: Changing Imaginations and New Experiences in the South African Lowveld
Isak Niehaus
6 Is Digital Memory Our New Demon? Notes on Surveillance and Vulnerability
Silvana Mandolessi
7 Marriage and the Ambiguities of 'Seeds': An Exploration of Intentions and Transparency in Relations in Botswana
Rijk van Dijk and Senzokuhle Doreen Setume
8 Zombies in the House: Thinking through the Spaces of Undead Transatlantic History
Gudrun Rath
9 Hedging in the Demonic: Living with the Dead in the United States
Ehler Voss
10 Afterword: Uncanny Modernities, Early and Late
Jean Comaroff

About the author

Thomas G. Kirsch is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
Kirsten Mahlke is Professor of Cultural Theory at the Department of Literature at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
Rijk van Dijk is Professor of Religion in Contemporary Africa and its Diaspora at the African Studies Centre Leiden, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Summary

This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny, probing into their effects on people?s domestic and intimate spheres of life.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas G. (University of Konstanz Kirsch
• Assisted by: Thomas G. Kirsch (Editor), Kirsch Thomas G. (Editor), Kirsten Mahlke (Editor), Rijk van Dijk (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2022
• EAN: 9780367221690
• ISBN: 978-0-367-22169-0
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Spirituality, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, RELIGION / Demonology & Satanism, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Religion: general, Satanism & demonology, Eclectic & Esoteric Religions & Belief Systems, Eclectic and esoteric religions and belief systems, Satanism and demonology