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Daemons Are Forever : Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium

by David Gordon White

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Format Paperback / Softback
Book Series Silk Roads
ISBN-10 022671490X
ISBN-13 9780226714905
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Imprint University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jan 8th, 2021
Print length 360 Pages
Weight 504 grams
Dimensions 15.20 x 22.80 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification: Asian history Buddhism Hinduism
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A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, Daemons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings--daemons--and an account of exchanges, among human populations, of the science of spirit beings: daemon-ology. Since the time of the Indo-European migrations, and especially following the opening of the Silk Road, a common daemonological vernacular has been shared among populations ranging from East and South Asia to Northern Europe. In this virtuoso work of historical sleuthing, David Gordon White recovers the trajectories of both the "inner demons" cohabiting the bodies of their human hosts and the "outer daemons" that those same humans recognized each time they encountered them in their enchanted haunts: sylvan pools, sites of geothermal eruptions, and dark forest groves. Along the way, he invites his readers to reconsider the potential and promise of the historical method in religious studies, suggesting that a "connected histories" approach to Eurasian daemonology may serve as a model for restoring history to its proper place, at the heart of the history of religions discipline.

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