Midelfort, H. C. Erik: Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of Eighteenth-century Germany.(Book Review) From: History: Review of New Books | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Thompson, Andrew C. | COPYRIGHT 2005 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Midelfort, H. C. Erik Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of Eighteenth-century Germany New Haven: Yale University Press 219 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-300-10669-6 Publication Date: July 2005

H. C. Erik Midelfort, a professor at the University of Virginia, has joined an illustrious list of predecessors in publishing his Terry Lectures on religion in the light of science and philosophy, given at Yale in the spring of 2003. The book retains something ...

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