American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States

by Sean McCloud

Book Overview

Stories of contemporary exorcisms are largely met with ridicule, or even hostility. Sean McCloud argues, however, that there are important themes to consider within these narratives of seemingly well-adjusted people who attend school, go shopping, watch movies, and also happen to fight demons.

American Possessions examines Third Wave spiritual warfare, a late twentieth-, early twenty-first century movement of evangelicals focused on banishing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190205350
• ISBN13: 9780190205355
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"