Richard Godbeer

The Devil's Dominion

Magic and Religion in Early New England. Paperback. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 268 Seiten
ISBN 0521466709
EAN 9780521466707
Veröffentlicht März 2002
Verlag/Hersteller Cambridge University Press
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A detailed look at the folk magic used by settlers in early New England.

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'Godbeer shows us that popular belief in magic underlay most accusations of witchcraft, even in the Salem epidemic, and he also shows that popular belief did not necessarily ascribe the efficacy of magic, and by consequence of witchcraft, to the devil.' Edmund S. Morgan, The New York Review of Books 'Godbeer gives a cogent analysis of the political and religious climate that led to the Salem outbreak, acknowledging other historians' extensive work in this area while presenting his own argument in the context of surviving folk practices.' Tides

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