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Chronologically structured,
Satanism: A Reader can be read as a succinct historical overview of the development of Satanism, with the immediacy that only primary sources can provide. It is ideal for both classroom and research use, as well as a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the occult, the transgressive, secularization, and the fringes of the religious landscape.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- Per Faxneld and Johan Nilsson
- 2: Eliphas Lévi, La Bible de la liberté (1841)
- Julian Strube
- 3: Jules Michelet, La Sorciére (1862)
- Ruben van Luijk
- 4: Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
- Fredrik Gregorius
- 5: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (The Theosophical Society), excerpts from The Secret Doctrine (1888)
- Per Faxneld
- 6: Léo Taxil, excerpt from Le Palladium régénéré et libre (1895)
- Ruben van Luijk
- 7: Stanislaw Przybyzewski, excerpt from Die Synagoge des Satan (1897)
- Per Faxneld
- 8: Ben Kadosh (aka Carl William Hansen), Den ny morgens gry (1906)
- Johan Nilsson
- 9: Maria de Naglowska, excerpts from La Lumière du sexe (1932) and "Satanisme masculin, Satanisme féminin" (1933)
- Hans Thomas Hakl and Michele Olzi
- 10: Aleister Crowley, "Hymn to Lucifer" (undated) and excerpt from The Book of Thoth (1944)
- Johan Nilsson
- 11: Kenneth Grant (Typhonian Order), excerpt from "Vinum Sabbati" (1961)
- Johan Nilsson
- 12: The Process Church of the Final Judgement, excerpts from "The Gods on War" (1967) and "The Gods and Their People" (1970)
- Fredrik Gregorius
- 13: Anton LaVey (Church of Satan), excerpt from interview in John Fritscher's Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth (1972)
- Cimminnee Holt
- 14: Michael Aquino (Temple of Set), The Book of Coming Forth By Night (1975)
- Cimminne Holt
- 15: The Order of the Nine Angles, excerpts from The Black Book of Satan (1984)
- Fredrik Gregorius
- 16: Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth (Den Sorte Sirkel / Black Metal Satanism), interview for Close-up Magazine (1992)
- Per Faxneld
- 17: The Satanic Reds, "FAQ for Satanic Reds - Social Realist Organization" (c. 2001)
- Johan Nilsson
- 18: Thomas Karlsson (Dragon Rouge), excerpt from Kabbala, kliffot och den goetiska magin (2004)
- Fredrik Gregorius
- 19: Michael W. Ford (The Order of Phosphorus, etc), excerpt from The Bible of the Adversary (2007)
- Olivia Cejvan
- 20: Lucien Greaves (The Satanic Temple), "Church of Satan vs. Satanic Temple" (2017)
- Fredrik Gregorius and Manon Hedenborg White
About the author
Per Faxneld is an historian of religions at Södertörn University, Sweden, where he is conducting a project on spiritual dimensions of Japanese martial arts. He is the author of the award-winning Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture and several other books.
Johan Nilsson is an historian of religions at Lund university, Sweden, where he is currently working on a research project about the reception of Buddhism in Swedish Theosophy. He is the author of As a Fire Beneath the Ashes: The Quest for Chinese Wisdom within Occultism, 1850-1949.
Summary
Chronologically structured, Satanism: A Reader can be read as a succinct historical overview of the development of Satanism, with the immediacy that only primary sources can provide. It is ideal for both classroom and research use, as well as a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the occult, the transgressive, secularization, and the fringes of the religious landscape.
Additional text
Satanism: A Reader shows strong potential as a pedagogical tool... This would be ideal for training undergraduates to use a comparative approach for textual analysis.
