Research Catalog

Title

Satanism : a social history / by Massimo Introvigne.

Author

Introvigne, Massimo

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Details

Description

x, 655 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

A 17th-century French haberdasher invented the Black Mass. An 18th-century English Cabinet Minister administered the Eucharist to a baboon. High-ranking Catholic authorities in the 19th century believed that Satan appeared in Masonic lodges in the shape of a crocodile and played the piano there. A well-known scientist from the 20th century established a cult of the Antichrist and exploded in a laboratory experiment. Three Italian girls in 2000 sacrificed a nun to the Devil. A Black Metal band honored Satan in Krakow, Poland, in 2004 by exhibiting on stage 120 decapitated sheep heads. Some of these stories, as absurd as they might sound, were real. Others, which might appear to be equally well reported, are false. But even false stories have generated real societal reactions. For the first time, Massimo Introvigne proposes a general social history of Satanism and anti-Satanism, from the French Court of Louis XIV to the Satanic scares of the late 20th century, satanic themes in Black Metal music, the Church of Satan, and beyond. --Back cover.

Series Statement

Aries book series. Texts and studies in Western esotericism, 1871-1405 ; Volume 21

Uniform Title

Aries book series ; v. 21.

Subjects

• Satanism > Social aspects > History
• History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-620) and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction ; Encountering Satanism ; Satanism : A Definition ; Satanism, Anti-Satanism, and the Pendulum Theory -- Part 1. Proto-Satanism, 17th and 18th Centuries -- 1. France : Satan in the Courtroom; Satan the Witch : The Witches' Sabbath and Satanism ; Satan the Exorcist: Possession Trials ; Satan the Poisoner : "Black Masses" at the Court of Louis XIV -- 2. Sweden : Satan the Highway Robber -- 3. Italy : Satan the Friar -- 4. England : Satan the Member of Parliament -- 5. Russia : Satan the Translator -- Part 2. Classical Satanism, 1821-1952 -- 6. An Epidemic of Anti-Satanism, 1821-1870. A Disoriented : Fiard ; A Lunatic? Berbiguier ; Berbiguier's Occult Legacy ; Scholars against Satan : From Görres to Mirville; A Polemist: Gougenot des Mousseaux; A Lawyer: Bizouard; Éliphas Lévi and the Baphomet -- 7. Around Huysmans, 1870-1891. Satan the Archivist : Vintras ; Satan the Pervert : Boullan ; Boullan in Poland? Mariavites and the Occult ; Satan the Journalist : Jules Bois ; Satan the Author : Huysmans, Boullan, and the Satanists ; Huysmans' Là-bas ; Satan the Catholic Priest : The Mystery of Canon Van Haecke ; Huysmans' Last Years -- 8. Satan the Freemason : The Mystification of Léo Taxil, 1891-1897. Le Diable au 19e siècle ; Enter Diana Vaughan ; The Sources of the Diable ; The Early Career of Léo Taxil ; Taxil and Diana Vaughan ; Taxil under Siege ; The Fall of Taxil ; Aftermath ; Many Questions and Some Answers
• 9. A Satanic Underground, 1897-1952. Satan the Unknown : Ben Kadosh; Satan the Philosopher : Stanislaw Przybyszewski and Josef Váchal ; Satan the Suicidal : The Ordo Albi Orientis and the Polish Satanism Scare ; Satan the Great Beast : Aleister Crowley and Satanism; Satan the Counter-Initiate : René Guénon vs. Satanism ; Satan and His Priestess : L'Élue du DragonA Real "Élue du Dragon" : Maria de Naglowska ; Satan the Barber : Herbert Sloane's Ophite Cultus Sathanas ; From Crowley to Lucifer : The Early Fraternitas Saturni ; Crowley and Gardner : Why Early Wicca was Not Satanist; Satan the Antichrist : Jack Parsons and His Lodge -- Part 3. Contemporary Satanism, 1952-2016 -- 10. The Origins of Contemporary Satanism, 1952-1980. Anton LaVey's Early Career ; 1966 : Year One of Satan ; LaVey's Black Mass ; The Satanic Bible ; The Growing Church of Satan, 1969-1972 ; The Satanic Rituals ; Aquino vs. LaVey : The Schism of 1975.; Satan the Jungian: The ProcessSatan in Jail : The Case of Charles Manson ; Satan the Egyptian : The Temple of Set; Satan the Pimp : The Society of the Dark Lily ; Satan the Prophet : The Order of Nine Angles ; Satan the Nietzschean : The Order of the Left Hand Path ; Satan the Alien : Joy of Satan -- 11. The Great Satanism Scare, 1980-1994. From Anti-cultism to Anti-satanism ; Satan the Psychiatrist : Therapists and Survivors ; Satan the Mormon : The Utah Satanic Abuse Scare ; Satan in the Kindergarten : The Pre-school Cases ; Satan the Preacher : Religious Counter-Satanism.

Call Number

BF1548

ISBN

• 9789004288287
• 9004288287

LCCN

2016026641

OCLC

945029607

Author

Introvigne, Massimo, author.

Title

Satanism : a social history / by Massimo Introvigne.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Aries book series. Texts and studies in Western esotericism, 1871-1405 ; Volume 21

Aries book series ; v. 21.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-620) and indexes.

Other Form:

Online version: Introvigne, Massimo. Satanism. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016 9789004244962 (DLC) 2016027990

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR BF1548 .I58 2016

JFE 17-1625