Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism POL056000 psychology and self-development

psychology and self-development

ISBN13: 9781493885145

Published: 07/13/2018

Barbara Austen and Barbara Bryan compiled this set of images to bring Fairfield's past into focus

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Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism POL056000 psychology and self-developmentAfter a nearly two thousand year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as The Age of the Demoniac, accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near East but spreading rapidly westward, spirit possession, both benevolent and malevolent, emerged as perhaps the most characteristic form of religiosity in early modern