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referred to the book as "mesmerizing", noting that the book is "lucidly written and riveting as any horror novel". They concluded that "Cuneo's excursion into the darker paths of American faith offers a deeply disturbing, ironic vision of what he sees as the unintended consequences of popular culture
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Cuneo reads the phenomenon as a backlash by religious conservatives, adrift in a secular society that they perceive as amoral, while at the same time feeling alienated from an increasingly secularized Protestantism or a post-Vatican-II Catholicism. To him, the charismatic ministers and renegade
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discusses the history and popular culture representation of exorcism in the United States, juxtaposed with Cuneo's experience attending over 50 exorcisms in person. Through his research, Cuneo highlights important figures, such as
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priests are casting out the demons of social change: feminism, the sexual revolution, New Age spirituality and the loss of faith in traditional institutions.
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and Ida B. Hammond, and Peter Blatty, as well topics such as the difference between
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Gunn, Joshua (2002). Cuneo, Michael W.; Medway, Gareth J.; Ellis, Bill (eds.).
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is a 2001 book written by Michael Cuneo and published originally by
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American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of the Plenty
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American exorcism: expelling demons in the land of plenty
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Doubleday
ISBN
9780385501767
Doubleday
exorcisms
Malachi Martin
Frank
Catholic exorcism
Deliverance ministry
The Washington Post
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
The Washington Post
Booklist
ISBN
978-0-385-50176-7


"The Possessed"
The Washington Post
ISSN
0190-8286
Archived
"American Exorcism"
Kirkus Reviews
Archived
"AMERICAN EXORCISM: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty by Michael W. Cuneo"
Publishers Weekly
Archived

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