Research Catalog

Title

Children of lucifer : the origins of modern religious satanism / Ruben van Luijk.

Author

Luijk, Ruben van

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

xiii, 613 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Oxford studies in Western esotericism

Uniform Title

Oxford studies in Western esotericism.

Subject

• Satanism > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction (mostly for academic readers) -- The Christian invention of Satanism -- Intermezzo 1. The eighteenth century: death of Satan? -- The romantic rehabilitation of Satan -- Satan in nineteenth-century counterculture -- Intermezzo 2. Charles Baudelaire: litanies to Satan -- Huysmans and consorts -- Unmasking the synagogue of Satan -- Unmasking the synagogue of Satan: continued and concluded -- Intermezzo 3. Nineteenth-century religious Satanism: fact or fiction? -- Paths into the twentieth century -- Tribulations of the early church -- Intermezzo 4. Adolescent Satanism, metal Satanism, cyber-Satanism -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 16-7264

ISBN

• 9780190275105 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0190275103 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2015044388

OCLC

933273961

Author

Luijk, Ruben van, author.

Title

Children of lucifer : the origins of modern religious satanism / Ruben van Luijk.

Publisher

New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford studies in Western esotericism

Oxford studies in Western esotericism.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Luijk, Ruben van. Children of lucifer. New York : Oxford University Press, 2016 9780190275136 (OCoLC)944211384

Research Call Number

JFE 16-7264