The religion of fools? : superstition past and present / edited by S.A. Smith and Alan Knight.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smith, S. A.
Other Authors:	Knight, Alan, 1946-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford Journals, 2008.
Series:	Past and present supplements ; no. 3, 2008
Subjects:	Superstition > History. Superstition > Religious aspects > Christianity.

Table of Contents:

Before superstition and after: Theophrastus and Plutarch on Deisidaimonia, / Hugh Bowden
Superstitio, superstition and religious repression in the late Roman Republic and principate (100 BCE-300 CE) / Richard Gordon
Superstition and its others in Han China / T. H. Barrett
Concern over superstition in late Medieval Europe / Michael D. Bailey
"Honeyed flies' and 'sugared rats': witchcraft, heresy, and superstition in the Bresciano, 1454-1535 / Stephen Bowd
"Superstition' magic, and clerical polemic in seventeenth-century Germany / Alison Rowlands
Recording superstition in early modern Britain: the origins of folklore / Alexandra Walsham
Superstition in imperial Russia / Simon Dixon
Superstition in Mexico: from Colonial church to secular state / Alan Knight
Mokoagne moní: sorcery and new forms of wealth in Cameroon / Basile Ndjio
Imperial secrets: vampires and nationhood in Puerto Rico / Lauren Derby
Witchcraft and the state: Cameroon and South Africa. Ambiguities of 'reality' and 'superstition' / Peter Geschiere

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