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100 1  Luijk, Ruben van,|eauthor. 
245 10 Children of lucifer :|bthe origins of modern religious 
       satanism /|cRuben van Luijk. 
264  1 New York :|bOxford University Press,|c[2016] 
300    xiii, 613 pages ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Oxford studies in Western esotericism 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Introduction (mostly for academic readers) -- The 
       Christian invention of Satanism -- Intermezzo 1. The 
       eighteenth century: death of Satan? -- The romantic 
       rehabilitation of Satan -- Satan in nineteenth-century 
       counterculture -- Intermezzo 2. Charles Baudelaire: 
       litanies to Satan -- Huysmans and consorts -- Unmasking 
       the synagogue of Satan -- Unmasking the synagogue of Satan
       : continued and concluded -- Intermezzo 3. Nineteenth-
       century religious Satanism: fact or fiction? -- Paths into
       the twentieth century -- Tribulations of the early church 
       -- Intermezzo 4. Adolescent Satanism, metal Satanism, 
       cyber-Satanism -- Conclusion. 
520    If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, 
       Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who
       dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram 
       paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal. At its most 
       sinister, its adherents are worshippers of evil incarnate 
       and engage in violent and perverse secret rituals, the 
       details of which mainstream society imagines with a 
       fascination verging on the obscene. Children of Lucifer 
       debunks these facile characterizations by exploring the 
       historical origins of modern Satanism. Ruben van Luijk 
       traces the movement's development from a concept invented 
       by a Christian church eager to demonize its internal and 
       external competitors to a positive (anti- ) religious 
       identity embraced by various groups in the modern West. 
       Van Luijk offers a comprehensive intellectual history of 
       this long and unpredictable trajectory. This story 
       involves Romantic poets, radical anarchists, eccentric 
       esotericists, Decadent writers, and schimastic exorcists, 
       among others, and culiminates in the establishment of the 
       Church of Satan by carnival entertainer Anton Szandor 
       LaVey. Yet it is more than a collection of colorful 
       characters and unlikely historical episodes. The emergence
       of new attitudes toward Satan proves to be intimately 
       linked to the ideological struggle for emancipation that 
       transformed the West and is epitomized by the American and
       French Revolutions. It is also closely connected to 
       secularization, that other exceptional historical process 
       which saw Western culture spontaneously renounce its 
       traditional gods and enter into a self-imposed state of 
       religious indecision. Children of Lucifer makes the case 
       that the emergence of Satanism presents a shadow history 
       of the evolution of modern civilization as we know it. 
       Offering the most comprehensive account of this history 
       yet written, van Luijk proves that, in the case of 
       Satanism, the facts are much more interesting than the 
       fiction. -- from dust jacket. 
650  0 Satanism|xHistory. 
650  7 Satanism.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01105622 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
776 08 |iElectronic version:|aLuijk, Ruben van.|tChildren of 
       lucifer.|dNew York : Oxford University Press, 2016
       |z9780190275136|w(OCoLC)944211384 
830  0 Oxford studies in Western esotericism. 
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