Philosophical Approaches to Demonology

Introduction

Robert Arp and Benjamin W. McCraw

Part I. Demons in Christianity

1 Augustine and Aquinas on the Demonic

Benjamin W. McCraw

2 The Demonic Body: Demonic Ontology and the Domicile of the Demons in Apuleius and Augustine

Seamus O'Neill

3 Christian Demonology: A New Philosophical Perspective

Shandon L. Guthrie

4 Women as "The Devil's Gateway": A Feminist Critique of Christian Demonology

Jeff Ewing

Part II. Non-Christian Conceptions of Demons

5 Socrates' Demonic Sign (Daimonion Semeion)

Charlene Elsby

6 The Ecological Demon: Silent Running and Interstellar

Brian Willems

7 Demons of Seduction in Early Jewish Literature

Dawn Hutchinson

8 The Jinn and the Shayatin

Edward Moad

9 Mara: Deva and Demon

Christopher Ketcham

Part III. Demons and Epistemological Issues

10 Justified Belief in the Existence of Demons is Impossible

David Kyle Johnson

11 Esoteric Spirituality, Devils and Demons: Introducing the Gnostic Vision of Modernity

Kristina Sipova

12 Re-Enchantment and Contemporary Demonology

Olli Petteri Pitkaenen

Part IV. Demons in Moral and Social Philosophy

13 Whedon's Demons: The Immorality of Moral Clarity and the Ethics of Moral Complexity

Talia Morag

14 Modern Representations of Evil: Kant, Arendt, and the Devil in Goethe's Faust and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita

Elvira Basevich

15 The Politics of Possession: Reading King James's Daemonologie Through the Lens of Mimetic Realism

Duncan Reyburn