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Satanism

By Joseph P. Laycock

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9781009479370, 9781009057349, 9781009060295
DOI
10.1017/9781009057349
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1323342 bytes)
Series
Elements in New Religious Movements
Pages
\84
Time added
2025-03-28 03:17:22

Description

What is Satanism? The word has functioned as a powerful indictment of one’s rivals, an expression of rebellion against authority, and sometimes as a label connoting the deliberate worship of dark, supernatural forces. This Element provides a concise overview of Satanism from its origins in early modern Europe through the present. It covers such topics as legends of the black mass, hellfire clubs, the Romantic Satanism of Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, and the expressed reverence for Satan of nineteenth-century occultists. It describes modern satanic religions including the Church of Satan, the Temple of Set, the Order of Nine Angles, The Satanic Temple, and others. It also addresses the contemporary Satanic Panic from the 1980s through QAnon. This Element should prove useful to anyone seeking to learn more about this complicated and frequently misunderstood tradition.

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