Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 316 pages, [8] leaves of plates)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300037104
,
030016355X
,
9780300037104
,
9780300163551
Content:
This intriguing book examines popular religion, traditional medicine, witchcraft, apparitions, demonology, and magic in nineteenth-century rural France. Devlin demonstrates that many of the impulses and mental processes now considered superstitious constituted a wholly reasonable response to the pressures of a harsh and impoverished life. Far from the product of a primitive mentality, many of these beliefs have survived in modern culture and can even illuminate the nature of modern mass politics.--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-311) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Devlin, Judith, 1952- Superstitious mind New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1987
Language:
English
URL:
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