Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media
Author:   Bill Ellis
Publisher:   The University Press of Kentucky
ISBN:  

9780813121703


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   05 October 2000
Format:   Hardback
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Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media


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Raising the Devil reveals how the Christian Pentecostal movement, right-wing conspiracy theories, and an opportunistic media turned grassroots folk traditions into the Satanism scare of the 1980s.

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Author:   Bill Ellis
Publisher:   The University Press of Kentucky
Imprint:   The University Press of Kentucky
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.689kg
ISBN:  

9780813121703


ISBN 10:   0813121701
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   05 October 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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<p> Takes an important and newsworthy topic and provides a very different slant upon it. The diversity of his approaches will make it important to several different fields. -- Philip Jenkins, Penn State University


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Bill Ellis, associate professor of English and American studies at Penn State Hazelton, is the author of Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media. He has served as president of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research and of the American Folklore Society's Folk Narrative Section and is an active member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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