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BookMichael W. Cuneo
Reports on American exorcism and deliverance cultures after extensive observation, placing their growth within media, institutional, and social change.
BookBrian P. Levack
A history of possession and exorcism that asks how religious cultures supplied the scripts through which afflicted people and their communities understood and enacted possession.
BookJoseph P. Laycock and Eric Harrelson
Traces a feedback loop in which horror films borrow religious ideas and then reshape religious belief, reported experience, and public fear about demons and exorcism.
BookEmma Cohen
Combines ethnography in an Afro-Brazilian religious community with cognitive-science proposals about how spirit concepts, possession, and healing practices become compelling and transmissible.