Of demons and Hollywood
Exorcism in American culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3942928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael W Cuneo (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ford-ham University, Bronx, NY 10458-5160, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 455-465 |
| Publication date | 1998-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000842989802700407 |
| OpenAlex | W1931307643 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
As the related phenomena of exorcism and deliverance ministry vividly attest, the popular entertainment industry in the United States possesses a tremendous capacity for influencing religious beliefs and behaviours. Since the early 1970s, cinematic and popular literary treatments of demonic possession and affliction have helped create recurrent demands for exorcism within various sectors of American society. This paper examines the peculiar dynamics by which markets for exorcism have been created and sustained by the entertainment industry, and also the various ways in which these markets have been satisfied by religious entrepreneurs within the respective worlds of neo-Pentecostalism, Protestant evangelicalism and Roman Catholicism
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Christian ministry · Demonology · Entertainment · Entertainment industry · Exorcism · Hollywood · Literature · Political science · Possession (linguistics · Protestantism · Sociology · Visual arts · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |