TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sluhovsky,Moshe
TI  - Believe not every spirit: possession, mysticism, & discernment in early modern Catholicism 
SN  - 9780226762951
AV  - BT975 .S58 2007eb
U1  - 235/.4 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Demonology
KW  - Discernment of spirits
KW  - Demoniac possession
KW  - Spirit possession
KW  - Exorcism
KW  - Mysticism
KW  - Démonologie
KW  - Discernement des esprits
KW  - Possession diabolique
KW  - Possession par les esprits
KW  - Exorcisme
KW  - Mysticisme
KW  - mysticism
KW  - aat
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Life
KW  - Spiritual Warfare
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Angelology & Demonology
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-359) and index; Possession and exorcism -- Mysticism -- Discernment -- Intersections
N2  - From 1400 through 1700, the number of reports of demonic possessions among European women was extraordinarily high. During the same period, a new type of mysticism?popular with women?emerged that greatly affected the risk of possession and, as a result, the practice of exorcism. Many feared that in moments of rapture, women, who had surrendered their souls to divine love, were not experiencing the work of angels, but rather the ravages of demons in disguise. So how then, asks Moshe Sluhovsky, were practitioners of exorcism to distinguish demonic from divine possessions? Drawing on unexplored a
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