
The Superstitious Mind
French Peasants and the Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century
Judith Devlin(Author)
Yale University Press
Published on 10. September 1987
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-0-300-03710-4 (ISBN)
Description
This intriguing book examines popular religion, traditional medicine, witchcraft, apparitions, demonology, and magic in nineteenth-century rural France. Devlin demonstrates that many of the impulses and mental processes now considered superstitious constituted a wholly reasonable response to the pressures of a harsh and impoverished life. Far from the product of a primitive mentality, many of these beliefs have survived in modern culture and can even illuminate the nature of modern mass politics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 165 mm
Weight
785 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-03710-4 (9780300037104)
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