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008			150122s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
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100	1		_aMcCloud, Sean.
245	1	0	_aAmerican possessions : _bfighting demons in the contemporary United States / _cSean McCloud.
264		1	_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2015
300			_axi, 175 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 149-169) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : American religion in an era of possessions -- Delivering the world -- Possessed possessions, defiled land, and the horrors of history -- The gothic therapeutic -- Haunting desires : agency in an era of possessions.
520			_aStories 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 demons from human bodies, material objects, land, regions, political parties, and nation states. While Third Wave beliefs may seem far removed from what many scholars view as mainstream religious practice, McCloud argues that the movement provides an ideal case study for identifying some of the most prominent tropes within the contemporary American religious landscape. Drawing on interviews, television shows, documentaries, websites, and dozens of spiritual warfare handbooks, McCloud examines Third Wave practices such deliverance rituals (a uniquely Protestant form of exorcism), spiritual housekeeping (the removal of demons from everyday objects), and spiritual mapping (searching for the demonic in the physical landscape). Demons, he shows, are the central fact of life in the Third Wave imagination.
650		0	_aDemoniac possession _zUnited States.
650		0	_aSpiritual warfare _zUnited States.
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