Broschiertes Buch

Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits

'Small Gods' at the Margins of Christendom

Herausgeber: Ostling, Michael

Beschreibung

Considers the historical relationship between Christianity and 'small gods', including fairies, demons and nature spirits Brings together scholarship from a wide range of of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary approaches Examines case studies spanning two thousand years, from Egypt to the Andes and Indonesia

Autor

Michael Ostling is Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University, USA, and Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, Australia. Author of Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland (2011), he writes on witchcraft, popular religion, history of emotions, theory in Religious Studies, and critical pedagogy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK / Palgrave Macmillan
• 2018 edition
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349844142
• ISBN-10: 1349844144
• Artikelnr.: 54773710