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Toward a Sociology of Prayer
This chapter looks at the shifts in prayer patters between generations of individuals in a primarily Catholic cultural setting. What he finds is that people of the younger generation (25–40 year olds) generall...
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Introduction: Pluralism as Legitimization of Diversity
The prospect of religious pluralism places the study of religions and spiritualities outside the enclosure within which sociology of religion had voluntarily locked itself for several decades. While there were...
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Spirituality
The relevance of religion to the heart of contemporary society is open to multiple interpretations. The concept of spirituality emerges into the sociological debate from the context of cultural pluralism, the ...
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Erratum to: Be Fruitful and Multiply… Fast! The Spread of Orthodox Churches in Italy
A part of the text was inadvertently left out of the print version of chapter 4. The following text precedes the text on page 64.
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The Over-policing, and Decriminalizing, of the Devil
As part of an elective affinity, the number of professional exorcists has increased over the years, and this chapter claims that as more experts are pointing out that the devil is among us, more people are bel...
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The Sociology of Exorcism
This chapter gives an account of a sociological understanding of what exorcism is. Using functional (what religion does for people and/or community) and substantive (what religion is for people and/or communit...
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Case Study of Catholic Exorcism: Undergoing Exorcism
Utilizing the same data, this chapter specifically focuses on the analysis of the 5 per cent of cases which have led to a formal exorcism. It also details the observations made by the authors during their atte...
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Be Fruitful and Multiply… Fast! The Spread of Orthodox Churches in Italy
Historically, the presence of the Orthodox Churches in Italy is a reality established over a number of centuries; from a sociological point of view, however, their significance is a relatively new phenomenon. ...
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Exploring the History of American Sociology Through Topic Modelling
The study aims to explore the temporal evolution of topics in the abstracts of articles published by the American Journal of Sociology in the last century (1921–2016). Within the topic detection perspective, this...
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Introduction
This chapter not only introduces the book but describes the increase in the belief in the devil and in demonic possession. It uses the theory of de Certeau on exorcism and social changes and adapts his theory ...
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Case Study of Catholic Exorcism: Visiting an Exorcist
This chapter moves to a case study and analyses the data, covering a ten-year period, which was provided by an experienced Catholic exorcist in the south of Europe. The data comprise a sociological analysis of...
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Religious Competition over Exorcism
This chapter starts to question, sociologically, the increase in the visibility of this practice and the belief behind it. It argues that, due to intense competition between religious groups in our multi-faith...
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Introduction. Global Eastern Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics and Human Rights
This introductory chapter explains the state of the art, the objective, and theoretical perspectives of the current volume. It dwells into the discourses of religious, political, and human rights issues, which...
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Conclusion
From different social-scientific perspectives the chapters of this book illustrate that various answers to the inquiry into what kind of meanings the practice of exorcism retains in modern societies can be pro...
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Diagnosing the Devil. A Case Study on a Protocol Between an Exorcist and a Psychiatrist in Italy
According to a positivist perspective, the relationship between religion and science has always been considered mutually exclusive and irreconcilable. This perspective has been deeply debated and reshaped in t...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces this edited book as a study of exorcism within a social-scientific perspective in Western societies. Applying the sociological work of de Certeau, and the anthropological perspective of...
