| Author/Contributor(s): | Goodman, Felicitas D |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press (Ips) |
| Date: | 05/01/1988 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Quite an interesting book . . . --Religious Studies Review
It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years. --The American Rationalist
. . . Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatment of a compelling and much-debated subject. --Journal of Folklore Research
Rich in detail derived from the author's fieldwork and the anthropological literature, this work paints a picture of possession as one of the usually positive and most widespread of human religious experiences. It also details the ritual of exorcism, which is applied when things go wrong.