Children of Lucifer the Origins of Modern Religious Satanism
Satanism adopts Satan, the Judeo-Christian representative of evil, as an object of veneration. This work explores the historical origins of this extraordinary 'antireligion.'
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press
2016.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
Oxford studies in western esotericism. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47060141*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Series; Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Practical Indications for the Reader; Introduction: Mostly for Academic Readers; Defining Satanism; Available Literature; Hypothesis, Framework, and Methodology of This Study; 1. The Christian Invention of Satanism; A Short Biography of the Devil; Constructing Worshippers of Satan; Exorcising the Devil's Fifth Column; The Satanist Conspiracy of Witchcraft; Black Magic and the Black Mass; The Affair of the Poisons; Satanists before the Modern Age?
- Intermezzo 1 The Eighteenth Century: Death of Satan?2. The Romantic Rehabilitation of Satan; The Satanic School of Poetry; God, Satan, and Revolution; Poetry, Myth, and Man's Ultimate Grounds of Being; Satan's New Myths: Blake and Shelley; Satan's New Myths: Byron and Hugo; How Satanist Were the Romantic Satanists?; 3. Satan in Nineteenth-Century Counterculture; Sex, Science, and Liberty; Satan the Anarchist; (Re)constructing Historical Satanism; Satan in Nineteenth-Century Occultism; Children of Lucifer; Intermezzo 2 Charles Baudelaire: Litanies to Satan; 4. Huysmans and Consorts.
- "Down There"Huysmans Discovers Satanism; Péladan, Guaita, and Papus; Joseph Boullan; The Remarkable Case of Chaplain Van Haecke and Canon Docre; Intermediary Conclusions; Competing Concepts of Satanism; Aftermath; 5. Unmasking the Synagogue of Satan; The Unveiling of Freemasonry; Taxil before Palladism; Excursus: Taxil's Sources; The Rise and Fall of Palladism; The Great Masonic Conspiracy; How Freemasons Became Satanists; 6. Unmasking the Synagogue of Satan: Continued and Concluded; Fighting Democracy by Democratic Means; Hidden Temples, Secret Grottos, and International Men of Mystery.
- A Few Words on Satan in Freemasonry, and on Neo-PalladismThe Jewish Question; By Way of Conclusion; Intermezzo 3 Nineteenth-Century Religious Satanism: Fact or Fiction?; 7. Paths into the Twentieth Century; The Church of Satan; Precursors and Inspirations; Aleister Crowley, or the Great Beast 666; The Other Tradition: Attribution; The Heritage of Romantic Satanism; The Paradox of Antireligious Religion; Reviving "Black" Magic; 8. Tribulations of the Early Church; Satan and Set; LaVey and Aquino; The Satanism Scare, or, The Virulence of Old Legends.
- Nazism, the Western Revolution, and Genuine Satanist ConspiraciesLaVey's Last Years; Intermezzo 4 Adolescent Satanism, Metal Satanism, Cyber-Satanism; Conclusion; Attribution; Rehabilitation; Appropriation; Application; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
