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Religious belief in the devil may have declined, but western demons are alive and well in popular culture and contemporary politics.
A teenage domestic servant showed signs of possession, and a miller was accused of witchcraft. Considering records of these events helps clarify what we can and cannot know about the past.
A much talked-about scene from the latest Netflix horror raises important questions about how the Bible deals with mental health.
How some evangelicals use spiritual warfare to interpret the presidency of Donald Trump.
Stella Immanuel, who made headlines recently regarding a false coronavirus cure claim, has many beliefs related to how demons are a threat to humans. An expert explains their long religious history.
Stories featuring demons and sex date back to early Judaism and Christianity. They inspired the witch craze and continue to be believed by many conservative Christians in America.
The idea of organized satanic witchcraft was invented in 15th-century Europe by church and state authorities, who at first had a hard time convincing regular folks it was real.
Forty-five years ago, ‘The Exorcist’ terrified viewers with its portrayal of a practice that goes back several centuries and continues today in Christianity.
The history of why witchcraft was seen as a woman’s work.
While many American Catholics believe demons and exorcism to be part of a distant past, an expert explains how beliefs that sexual desires could be part of demonic temptation still persist.
The Vatican is training priests to recognise and deal with the demonically possessed. This re-emergence of the Devil in popular Western culture is part of a new engagement with an enchanted world.
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Visiting scholar, postdoctoral fellow in American Studies, Queen's University Belfast
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Religion, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Cadbury Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University
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Professor of History, Iowa State University
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Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Exeter
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Associate Professor of English, Rhode Island College
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PhD Candidate/Teaching Fellow in Systematic Theology, Boston College
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Lecturer in Creative Writing and 19th-Century Literature, Aberystwyth University
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Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies and Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy, University of Toronto Mississauga, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor in Classical Islamic Religious Thought and Dialogue, Trinity College Dublin
