If you think ghosts are only responsible for hauntings, think again. This New York Times Best Seller reveals the grave religious process behind supernatural events…
Who are the familiar spirits of classical culture and what is their relationship to Christian demons? In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity…
From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation…
Exorcism is more widespread in contemporary England than perhaps at any other time in history. The Anglican Church is by no means the main provider…
When we conjure up the idea of the devil and the demonic hordes in our mind, we are often thinking in the context of how…
From the Hebrew Bible’s shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This…
In many near eastern traditions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam, demons have appeared as a cause of illness from ancient times until at least the…
Satanism has been known around the world by many names over the centuries and has involved the shadowy deities of ancient pagan religions. During Christian…
“Although the Devil still ‘lives’ in modern popular culture, for the past 250 years he has become marginal to the dominant concerns of Western intellectual…
