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Path of the Devil

Name: Path of the Devil
Brand: Rowman & Littlefield
SKU: 04906258
Price: 144.39 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Gary Jensen
ISBN: 9780742546967

Early Modern Witch Hunts

Gary Jensen

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04906258

Publishers Rowman & Littlefield, September 2006

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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.