2020 1st Edtn A HISTORY OF ANGLICAN EXORCISM By Francis Young Illus. Fine Esoteric Softcover - 2020

London: T&T Clark, 2020. 1st Edition. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Fine - As New Please see photos as part of condition report 2020 1st Edition , A HISTORY OF ANGLICAN EXORCISM Deliverance and Demonology in Church Ritual By Francis Young Francis Young is a UK-based historian and folklorist specialising in the history of religion and belief. He is the author, editor or co-author of 18 books. He is interested in how history illuminates the nature of belief and in the intersections between religion, folklore, magic and other forms of supernatural belief, and writes mainly about Britain, Ireland, and Lithuania. His books have dealt with early modern Catholicism, the history of exorcism, medieval monasticism, folklore, the cult of saints, the history of magic and witchcraft, and Baltic paganism. Illustrated By: N/A Format: Softcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: T&T Clark, London octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 252 ISBN: 9780567692931 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. SKU: BTETM0001176 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg