The Social Scientific Study of Exorcism in Christianity

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I

Case Studies in Early Modernity

Chapter 2

The Secret History of the "Earling Exorcism."

Chapter 3

Demoniac possession and religious scientific debate in nineteenth-century France

Chapter 4

A Brazilian exorcist at the beginning of the 20th century: the supernatural as an empowerment strategy

Part II

Case Studies in Late Modernity

Chapter 5

The Devil returns. Practices of catholic Exorcism in Argentina

Chapter 6

Diagnosing the Devil. A Case Study on a Protocol between an Exorcist and a Psychiatrist in Italy

Chapter 7

Shaping the Past, Envisioning the Future. Exorcism and the Demon of Memory

Chapter 8

Doing Battle with the Forces of Darkness in a Secularized Society

Chapter 9

Exorcism, Deliverance, and the Embodied Presence in the Church of England

Chapter 10

Spiritual Flows and Obstructions: Local Deliverance in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God

Chapter 11

Mental health of the Exorcist: an ethnographic case study in Tampa Bay

Chapter 12

Exorcism, medias and the Romanian orthodoxy: chasing the Devil, coping with uncertainty

Chapter 13

Ruqyah and Islamic Treatment Centers in Indonesia

Conclusion