ISBN: 9780742546974

The Path of the Devil is organized around three fundamental theories: witch hunts as functional sacrificial ceremonies, realistic conflict and strategic persecution, and scapegoat phenome… Mehr…

The Path of the Devil is organized around three fundamental theories: witch hunts as functional sacrificial ceremonies, realistic conflict and strategic persecution, and scapegoat phenomena. All conjectures point to the role of epidemic disease, war, and climactic and economic hardships as considerable factors. However, such crises have to be differentiated: when war is measured as a quantitative characteristic it is found to inhibit witch hunts, while epidemic disease and economic hardship encourages them. The book integrates the sociologies of collective behavior, contentious conflict, and deviance with cross-disciplinary theory and research. The final chapters examine the Salem witch trials as ''a perfect storm,'' and illustrate the general patterns found for early modern witch hunts and ''modern witch hunts,'' which exhibit similarities that are found to be more than metaphorical. | The Path of the Devil by Gary Jensen Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Religion > Christianity > History P10107, Gary Jensen<

ISBN: 9780742546974

Combining diverse sociological and philosophical theories, The Path of the Devil is a comparative analysis of the witch hunts of the early modern era. The author broadens his investigatio… Mehr…

Combining diverse sociological and philosophical theories, The Path of the Devil is a comparative analysis of the witch hunts of the early modern era. The author broadens his investigation through new quantitative analyses of the role of apocalyptic crises such as plague, war and other hardship.; Social Sciences, Rowman & Littlefield<

ISBN: 0742546977

The Path of the Devil ab 59.49 € als Taschenbuch: Early Modern Witch Hunts. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN: 9780742546974

Find The Path of the Devil by Gary Jensen in Paperback and other formats in History > Modern - General. Media > Books new, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

2006, ISBN: 0742546977

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