The Leading eBooks Store Online

for your Apple or Android device, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...

New to eBooks.com?

Learn more
Browse our categories
  • Bestsellers - This Week
  • Foreign Language Study
  • Pets
  • Bestsellers - Last 6 months
  • Games
  • Philosophy
  • Archaeology
  • Gardening
  • Photography
  • Architecture
  • Graphic Books
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • Health & Fitness
  • Political Science
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • History
  • Psychology & Psychiatry
  • Body Mind & Spirit
  • House & Home
  • Reference
  • Business & Economics
  • Humor
  • Religion
  • Children's & Young Adult Fiction
  • Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Romance
  • Computers
  • Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Science
  • Crafts & Hobbies
  • Law
  • Science Fiction
  • Current Events
  • Literary Collections
  • Self-Help
  • Drama
  • Literary Criticism
  • Sex
  • Education
  • Literary Fiction
  • Social Science
  • The Environment
  • Mathematics
  • Sports & Recreation
  • Family & Relationships
  • Media
  • Study Aids
  • Fantasy
  • Medical
  • Technology
  • Fiction
  • Music
  • Transportation
  • Folklore & Mythology
  • Nature
  • Travel
  • Food and Wine
  • Performing Arts
  • True Crime
  • Foreign Language Books
Demonology. Satanism. Possession

Most popular at the top

  • Demonic Possession and Exorcismby Sarah Ferber

    Routledge 2004; US$ 35.95

    In this highly original study of possession by demons and their exorcism, Sarah Ferber offers a challenging study of one of the most intriguing phenomenon of early modern Europe. Looking also at the present day, she argues that early modern more...

  • The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern Englandby Nathan Johnstone; Anthony Fletcher; John Guy; John Morrill

    Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 35.00

    Nathan Johnstone examines the concept of the Devil in English culture between the Reformation and the English Civil War. The author looks at the ways in which beliefs about the nature of the Devil changed as a consequence of the Reformation, and its impact on religious, literary and political culture. more...

  • Satanism Todayby James R. Lewis

    ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 85.00

    This encyclopedia on contemporary Satanism fully explores cross-cultural Satan-lore, from its Zoroastrian roots to its modern popularity. more...

  • Diabolism in Colonial Peru, 1560-1750by Andrew Redden

    Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2008; US$ 99.00

    The study analyses missionary letters, inquisitorial trials, and chronicles to create a portrait of a communal society that formed an integral part of the Hispanic world between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. more...

  • The Devil Notebooksby Laurence A. Rickels

    University of Minnesota Press 2008; US$ 75.00

    Milton’s Paradise Lost. Goethe’s Faust. Aaron Spelling’s Satan’s School for Girls? Laurence A. Rickels scours the canon and pop culture in this all-encompassing study on the Devil. Continuing the work he began in his influential book The Vampire Lectures, Rickels returns with his trademark wit and encyclopedic knowledge to go mano a mano with the Prince of Darkness himself. Revealing our astonishing obsession with Satan in his many forms, Rickels guides us on an entertaining and enlightening journey down the darkest corridors that film, music, folklore, theater, and literature have ever offered. “The Devil represents the father,” Rickels writes in the opening pages, setting the stage to challenge foundational interpretations... more...

  • New Satanistsby Gini Graham Scott; Linda Blood

    Grand Central Publishing 2009; US$ 6.99

    What most people don't know and what US law enforcement offers are only beginning to discover is that Satanism is the fastest growing underground criminal movement in the world today and that it is directly linked to an exploding number of child abuse cases, Nazism, drug dealing, pornography and prostitution. A former cult memeber rips the veil of secrecy off the most frightening criminal phenomenon of our time. more...

  • The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves and Other Monstersby Rosemary Ellen Guiley

    Infobase Publishing 2004; US$ 102.00

    Monsters and shape-shifters have always held a special fascination in mythologies, legends, and folklore the world over. From ancient customs to famous cases of beasts and vampires and their reflections in popular culture, 600 entries provide definitions, explanations, and lists of suggested further reading. more...

  • Demon Possession in Elizabethan Englandby KATHLEEN SANDS

    ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 49.95

    Presents a vivid account of eleven cases diagnosed as demon possession in Elizabethan England, including the social, psychological, and theological assumptions that contributed to this phenomenon. more...

  • In the Company of Demonsby Armando Maggi

    University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 25.00

    Who are the familiar spirits of classical culture and what is their relationship to Christian demons? In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all classical deities, semi-gods, and spiritual creatures, including the gods of the household, the lares and penates. But with In the Company of Demons, the world’s leading demonologist Armando Maggi argues that the great thinkers of the Italian Renaissance had a more nuanced and perhaps less sinister interpretation of these creatures or spiritual bodies. Maggi leads us straight to the heart of what Italian Renaissance culture thought familiar spirits were. Through close readings of Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Strozzi Cigogna,... more...