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Moshe Sluhovsky

Believe Not Every Spirit

Possession, Mysticism, & Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism

384 pages,  6 x 9  © 2007

Cloth $45.00

ISBN: 9780226762821   Published May 2007

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Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1

PART ONE: POSSESSION AND EXORCISM

1: Trivializing Possession
2: The Prevalence of Mundane Practice
3: From Praxis to Prescribed Ritual

PART TWO: MYSTICISM

4: La Spiritualité à la Mode
5: Contemplation, Possession, and Sexual Misconduct

PART THREE: DISCERNMENT

6: Anatomy of the Soul
7: Discerning Women

PART FOUR: INTERSECTIONS

8: The Devil in the Convent
9: Conclusions

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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