Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: ’Small Gods’ at the Margins of Christendom Michael 113758520X 9781137585202

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• ISBN-10: 113758520X 
• ISBN-13: 9781137585202
• Author: Michael Ostling

This book examines the fairies, demons, and nature spirits haunting the margins of Christendom from late-antique Egypt to early modern Scotland to contemporary Amazonia. Contributions from anthropologists, folklorists, historians and religionists explore Christian strategies of encompassment and marginalization, and the ‘small gods’ undisciplined tendency to evade such efforts at exorcism. Lurking in forest or fairy-mound, chuckling in dark corners of the home or of the demoniac’s body, the small gods both define and disturb the borders of a religion that is endlessly syncretistic and in endless, active denial of its own syncretism. The book will be of interest to students of folklore, indigenous Christianity, the history of science, and comparative religion.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Where’ve All the Good People Gone?
1. Demonization and its Discontents
2. The Threat of Headless Beings: Constructing the Demonic in Christian Egypt
3. Secrets of the Síd: The Supernatural in Medieval Irish Texts
4. The Good, the Bad and the Unholy: Ambivalent Angels in the Middle Ages
5. Between Fallen Angels and Nature Spirits: Russian Demonology of the Early Modern Period
6. Crisis at the Border: Amazonian Relations with Spirits and Others
2. Enlightenment and its Ambiguities
7. Between Humans and Angels: Scientific Uses for Fairies in Early Modern Scotland
8. The Álfar, the Clerics and the Enlightenment: Conceptions of the Supernatural in the Age of Reason in Iceland
9. The Devil and the Spirit World in Nineteenth-Century Estonia: From Christianization to Folklorization
10. Dreaming of Snakes in Contemporary Zambia: Small Gods and the Secular
3. Remnants, Relocations, and Re-Enchantments
11. Small Gods, Small Demons: Remnants of an Archaic Fairy Cult in Central and South-Eastern Europe
12. Who Owns the World? Recognizing the Repressed Small Gods of Southeast Asia
13. Spirits, Christians and Capitalists in the Rainforests of Papua New Guinea
14. “Reconnecting to Everything”: Fairies in Contemporary Paganism
15. Afterword

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