Healing or hurting?: Interpretations of possession as a disease in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century press

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Healing or hurting?: Interpretations of possession as a disease in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century press

Original language description

This study focuses on articles published in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century inwhich possessionwas portrayed as a disease, be it mental or physical.At the beginning, we will briefly show how possession cases were interpreted by the medical profession in the 19th century. We will also describe changes in conceptions of possession and exorcism in Christian religion over this period. The core part of our study entails an analysis of articles, focusing on descriptions of the disease and how possession was perceived by those involved. The paper also considersindividual cases and the outcomes and potential consequences of the exorcisms performed on the possessed, including court cases or being committed to an asylum for the mentally ill.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Axis Mundi

ISSN

1337-0626

e-ISSN

2729-8841

Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

21-29

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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