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Biblical Demons in Contemporary Culture
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Abstract
This chapter examines the “demonic name game” in which both contemporary deliverance ministries and fictional media adapt Biblical names of demons, monsters, and other personages to construct either new demonic hierarchies as frameworks for diagnosing misfortune or synthetic folklore that lends verisimilitude to fictional stories. The demonic name game is not a modern phenomenon, and has precedent in apocryphal texts and early modern grimoires. For both exoricsts and fiction writers, invoking the Bible and creating intricate lists of demonic names are strategies that make these demonologies seem authoritative. There is also slippage between these two discourses as fictional folklore is mistaken for authentic religious tradition and popular culture is interpreted as demonic.
Title: Biblical Demons in Contemporary Culture
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Abstract
This chapter examines the “demonic name game” in which both contemporary deliverance ministries and fictional media adapt Biblical names of demons, monsters, and other personages to construct either new demonic hierarchies as frameworks for diagnosing misfortune or synthetic folklore that lends verisimilitude to fictional stories.
The demonic name game is not a modern phenomenon, and has precedent in apocryphal texts and early modern grimoires.
For both exoricsts and fiction writers, invoking the Bible and creating intricate lists of demonic names are strategies that make these demonologies seem authoritative.
There is also slippage between these two discourses as fictional folklore is mistaken for authentic religious tradition and popular culture is interpreted as demonic.
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