The religion of fools? : superstition past and present / edited by S.A. Smith and Alan Knight.
2008
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Title
The religion of fools? : superstition past and present / edited by S.A. Smith and Alan Knight.
Created/published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford Journals, 2008.
Description
350 p. ; 22 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Past and present supplements ; 3, 2008
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Superstition in a non-Christian context. Before superstition and after: Theophrastus and Plutarch on Deisidaimonia / Hugh Bowden ; Superstitio, superstition and religious repression in the Late Roman Republic and Principate (100 BCE-300 CE) / Richard Gordon ; Superstition and its others in Han, China / T.H. Barrett
Superstition in Christendom. Concern over superstition in Late Medieval Europe / Michael D. Bailey ; "Honeyed flies" and "Sugared rats": witchcraft, heresy, and superstition in the Bresciano, 1454-1535 / Stephen Bowd ; "Superstition", magic and clerical polemic in seventeenth century Germany / Alison Rowlands ; Recording superstition in early modern Britain: the origins of folklore / Alexandra Walsham ; Superstition in Imperial Russia / Simon Dixon
Superstition in the modern world. superstition in Mexico: from Colonial church to secular state / Alan Kinght ; Mokoagne moni: sorcery and new forms of wealth in Cameroon / Basile Ndjio ; Imperial secrets: vampires and nationhood in Puerto Rico / Lauren Derby ; Witchcraft and the state: Cameroon and South Africa, ambiguities of "reality" and "superstition" / Peter Geschiere.
Superstition in Christendom. Concern over superstition in Late Medieval Europe / Michael D. Bailey ; "Honeyed flies" and "Sugared rats": witchcraft, heresy, and superstition in the Bresciano, 1454-1535 / Stephen Bowd ; "Superstition", magic and clerical polemic in seventeenth century Germany / Alison Rowlands ; Recording superstition in early modern Britain: the origins of folklore / Alexandra Walsham ; Superstition in Imperial Russia / Simon Dixon
Superstition in the modern world. superstition in Mexico: from Colonial church to secular state / Alan Kinght ; Mokoagne moni: sorcery and new forms of wealth in Cameroon / Basile Ndjio ; Imperial secrets: vampires and nationhood in Puerto Rico / Lauren Derby ; Witchcraft and the state: Cameroon and South Africa, ambiguities of "reality" and "superstition" / Peter Geschiere.
Series
Past and present supplements ; new ser., v. 3.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Oxford.
Item Details
Call number
BL490 .R45 2008
Folger accession
266779