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 of this ritual, which predominantly takes place in
independent churches. However, every one of the Church of England
dioceses in the country now designates at least one member of its
clergy to advise on casting out demons. Such `deliverance ministry'
is in theory made available to all those parishioners who desire
it. Yet, as Francis Young reveals, present-day exorcism in
Anglicanism is an unlikely historical anomaly. It sprang into
existence in the 1970s within a church that earlier on had spent
whole centuries condemning the expulsion of evil spirits as either
Catholic superstition or evangelical excess. This book for the
first time tells the full story of the Anglican Church's approach
to demonology and the exorcist's ritual since the Reformation in
the sixteenth century. The author explains how and why how such a
remarkable transformation in the Church's attitude to the rite of
exorcism took place, while also setting his subject against the
canvas of the wider history of ideas.
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