CHILDREN of LUCIFER - The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism
by VAN LUIJK, RUBEN (author) LAVEY, ANTON SZANDOR : CROWLEY, ALEISTER (inspiration)
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- ISBN 10
- 0190275103
- ISBN 13
- 9780190275105
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New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover - 1st. Edition, 7th. Print - NEW/NEW - Ruben van Luijk explores the historical origins of modern Satanism, and traces the movement's development from a concept invented by a Christian church eager to demonize its internal and external competitors to a positive (anti-)religious identity embraced by various groups in the modern West. Van Luijk offers a comprehensive intellectual history of this long and unpredictable trajectory. This story involves Romantic poets, radical anarchists, eccentric esotericists, Decadent writers, and schismatic exorcists, among others, and culminates in the establishment of the Church of Satan by carnival entertainer Anton Szandor LaVey. Yet it is more than a collection of colorful characters and unlikely historical episodes. The emergence of new attitudes toward Satan proves to be intimately linked to the ideological struggle for emancipation that transformed the West and is epitomized by the American and French Revolutions. It is also closely connected to secularization, that other exceptional historical process which saw Western culture spontaneously renounce its traditional gods and enter into a self-imposed state of religious indecision. Children of Lucifer makes the case that the emergence of Satanism presents a shadow history of the evolution of modern civilization as we know it. Offering the most comprehensive account of this history yet written, van Luijk proves that, in the case of Satanism, the facts are much more interesting than the fiction..
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- Title
- CHILDREN of LUCIFER - The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism
- Author
- VAN LUIJK, RUBEN (author) LAVEY, ANTON SZANDOR : CROWLEY, ALEISTER (inspiration)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0190275103
- ISBN 13
- 9780190275105
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- Hardcover, History, Philosophy, Satanism
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- ARCANE KNOWLEDGE;
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