A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity

Young, Francis

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“…Barron" (email), 9 October 2019. For more on Amorth, see Giordan and Possamai (2018) and Young (2016). 17 For a general overview, see Frankfurter (2006) and Cuneo (2001), pp.…”

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Modern Practice, Archaic Ritual: Catholic Exorcism in America

Chavez

2021

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The following ethnographic and folkloric analysis of American exorcism practices post-1998 centers on four Catholic priest-exorcists currently active in the United States. After a brief commentary regarding the place of Satanism within contemporary Catholic imagination, this article posits that the Catholic Church’s recent institutional support of its office of exorcist must not be viewed separately from its discursive fear of Satanic cults and larger narratives of religious declension. The current era of exorcism practice in America is chiefly characterized as a response to the media sensationalism surrounding not only prior cases of demonic possession but also of Satanic ritual abuse. Moreover, beyond these explicit issues of religious competition (e.g., Catholics versus Satanic conspirators), the current era of exorcism practice is also implicitly characterized by the changing belief systems of contemporary Catholics. Thus, this article ultimately concerns issues related to religious modernization, the apotropaic use of established religious tradition, popular entertainment and the mediatization of contemporary exorcism cases, institutionalized training curricula and the spaces allowing ritual improvisation, and the vernacular religious consumption of unregulated paranormal concepts that possess no clear analogues within official Church theology.

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“…Barron" (email), 9 October 2019. For more on Amorth, see Giordan and Possamai (2018) and Young (2016). 17 For a general overview, see Frankfurter (2006) and Cuneo (2001), pp.…”

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Modern Practice, Archaic Ritual: Catholic Exorcism in America

Chavez

2021

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“…The version of the conjuring prayer developed by Leo XIII sounds as follows: "Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, omnis congregatio et secta diabolica, in nomine et virtute Domini Nostri Jesu Christi" (Rituale Romanum 1925, p. 539). In the early (prior to Leo XIII) versions of the ritual, the words "omnis congregatio et secta diabolica" are missing; the beginning of the prayer runs as follows: "exorcizo te," i.e., "I expel you" (Young 2016). At a certain time, this wording made exorcism a special tool of the cosmic battle of good against evil.…”

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Theology of Supernatural

Nosachev¹

2020

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The main research issues of the article are the determination of the genesis of theology created in Supernatural and the understanding of ways in which this show transforms a traditional Christian theological narrative. The methodological framework of the article, on the one hand, is the theory of the occulture (C. Partridge), and on the other, the narrative theory proposed in U. Eco’s semiotic model. C. Partridge successfully described modern religious popular culture as a coexistence of abstract Eastern good (the idea of the transcendent Absolute, self-spirituality) and Western personified evil. The ideal confirmation of this thesis is Supernatural, since it was the bricolage game with images of Christian evil that became the cornerstone of its popularity. In the 15 seasons of its existence, Supernatural, conceived as a story of two evil-hunting brothers wrapped in a collection of urban legends, has turned into a global panorama of world demonology while touching on the nature of evil, the world order, theodicy, the image of God, etc. In fact, this show creates a new demonology, angelology, and eschatology. The article states that the narrative topics of Supernatural are based on two themes, i.e., the theology of the spiritual war of the third wave of charismatic Protestantism and the occult outlooks derived from Emmanuel Swedenborg’s system. The main topic of this article is the role of monotheistic mythology in Supernatural. The author concludes that the case of Supernatural shows how the classical monotheistic narrative, in its orthodox and heterodox formats, is hugely attractive for the modern audience. A wide distribution of the occulture that has become a basis of modern mass culture and easily combines, by virtue of historical specifics of its genesis, with monotheism makes the classical monotheistic mythology more flexible and capable of meeting the audience’s different demands.

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“…In Catholic culture, and especially within the Italian Catholic environment, there has recently been a significant revival of the practice of exorcism. This is a fact noted by historians such as Levack (2013) and Young (2016). The article intends to show how this phenomenon is related to a series of important historical turning points, the most important of which is the recent collaboration between exorcists and Catholic psychologists and psychiatrists to establish a differential diagnosis between real possession and mere psychopathology.…”

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“…Several historians have recently analyzed the relationship between demonology and science, noting that despite a progressive secularization, the identification between psychic or physical evil and diabolical possession has survived the advent of scientific culture and has often been hybridized with it (Almond, 2004;Ferber, 2004;Hayward, 2004). Levack (2013) and Young (2016) have noted that the belief in demonic possession is enjoying a revival: The practice of exorcism has increased since the 1990s, particularly within the Catholic Church (also referred to here as "the Church"). This phenomenon has been so visible that even the American television network ABC showed the "real exorcism" of a young girl in a 1991 telecast.…”

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“…Levack (2013) and Young (2016) have noted that the belief in demonic possession is enjoying a revival: The practice of exorcism has increased since the 1990s, particularly within the Catholic Church (also referred to here as “the Church”). This phenomenon has been so visible that even the American television network ABC showed the “real exorcism” of a young girl in a 1991 telecast.…”

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Between sacred and profane: Possession, psychopathology, and the Catholic church.

Innamorati¹,

Taradel²,

Foschi³

2019

History of Psychology

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In Catholic culture, and especially within the Italian Catholic environment, there has recently been a significant revival of the practice of exorcism. This is a fact noted by historians such as Levack (2013) andYoung (2016). The article intends to show how this phenomenon is related to a series of important historical turning points, the most important of which is the recent collaboration between exorcists and Catholic psychologists and psychiatrists to establish a differential diagnosis between real possession and mere psychopathology. The recent revival of exorcism in Italy is particularly noteworthy because it reverses a slow but clear trend in the Catholic Church, in the course of the 20th century, that increasingly considered possessions either as delusional or very rare. The reality of the devil has never been denied by the Catholic Church, but until the Second Vatican Council, the tendency was to de-escalate the denunciations of its direct and personal presence in the world. The article describes this evolution up to the most recent developments, highlighting the historiographical entanglements related to the coexistence, within the scientific realm, of demonological and psychological themes and beliefs.

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A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity

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Modern Practice, Archaic Ritual: Catholic Exorcism in America

Modern Practice, Archaic Ritual: Catholic Exorcism in America

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