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Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
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Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
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Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical
symptoms; however, in Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in
Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic
possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with
regard to the community and culture. She focuses on significant
case studies from canonization processes (c. 1240-1450) which show
how each set of sources formed its own specific context, in which
demonic presence derived from different motivations, reasonings,
and methods of categorization. The chosen perspective is that of
lived religion, which is both a thematic approach and a
methodology: a focus on rituals, symbols, and gestures, as well as
sensitivity to nuances and careful contextualizing of the cases are
constitutive elements of the argumentation. The analysis contests
the hierarchy between the 'learned' and the 'popular' within
religion, as well as the existence of a strict polarity between
individual and collective religious participation. Demonic presence
disclosed negotiations over authority and agency; it shows how the
personal affected the communal, and vice versa, and how they were
eventually transformed into discourses and institutions of the
Church; that is, definitions of the miraculous and the diabolical.
Geographically, the volume covers Western Europe, comparing
Northern and Southern material and customs. The structure follows
the logic of the phenomenon, beginning with the background reasons
offered as a cause of demonic possession, continuing with
communities' responses and emotions, including construction of
sacred caregiving methods. Finally, the ways in which demonic
presence contributed to wider societal debates in the fields of
politics and spirituality are discussed. Alterity and inversion of
identity, gender, and various forms of corporeality and the
interplay between the sacred and diabolical are themes that run all
through the volume.
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