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21A.211

Magic, Witchcraft, and the Spirit World

Undergraduate · Historical course

Fall 2003

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Videos and Discussion, Spirit Possession
  • Film, The Holy Ghost people ( PDF )
  • Discuss Film and Covington Reading ( PDF )
  • Film, Secrets of the Psychics
  • Film, Telegrams from the Dead ( PDF )
  • Discuss Spiritualism
  • Divination and Magic
  • Discuss Visionaries ( PDF )
  • Film, Three Sovereigns for Sarah , Part I
  • Three Sovereigns , part II
  • Visit Salem Village (Danvers) ( PDF )
  • Film on Space Alien Possession ( PDF )
  • Discuss Space Aliens, Split Personality ( PDF )
  • Film, Search for Satan
  • Satanic Conspiracies, Recovered Memory
  • Film, Divided Memories
  • Divided Memories, Discussion
  • Wrap-up

Readings

  • Covington, Dennis. Salvation on Sand Mountain. New York, NY: Penguin (Non Classics), 1996. ISBN: 9780140254587.
    Required
  • Braude, Ann. Radical Spirits. 2nd ed. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780253215024.
    Required
  • Levack, Brian. The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe. 2nd ed. New York, NY; London, UK: Longman Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780582080690.
    Required
  • Boyer, P., and S. Nissenbaum. Salem Posessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974. ISBN: 9780674785328.
    Required
  • Slyomovich, Susan. “Ritual Grievance: the Language of Woman?” Woman and Performance 5, no. 1 (1990).
    Required
  • Ong, Aihwa. “The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia. ” American Ethnologist 15 (1987).
    Required
  • Christian, William. Visionaries: The Spanish Republic in the Reign of Christ. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999, pp. 13-40, 243-254, and 287-301. ISBN: 9780520219489.
    Required
  • Briggs, Robin. Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1998, pp. 137-157, and 259-286. ISBN: 9780140144383.
    Required
  • Willis, Deborah. Malevolent Nurture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. 1-43. ISBN: 9780801481949.
    Required
  • Rosenthal, Bernard. Salem Story. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 67-75. ISBN: 9780521558204.
    Required
  • Karlsen, Carol. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1998, pp. 110-112. ISBN: 9780393317596.
    Required
  • Showalter, Elaine. Hystories. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1998, pp. 159-170, and 189-201. ISBN: 9780231104593.
    Required
  • Acocella, Joan. “The Politics of Hysteria,” The New Yorker, April 6, 1998.
    Required
  • Rothenberg, Daniel. Gringo Organ Sellers.
    Required
  • Grann, David. “Stalking Dr. Steere Over Lyme Disease. ” The NY Times, June 17, 2001.
    Required
  • Loftus, Elizabeth, and Katherine Ketcham. The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1996, pp. 20-30. ISBN: 9780312141233.
    Required
  • Ofshe, Richard, and Ethan Watters. Making Monsters. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996, pp. 155-175. ISBN: 9780520205833.
    Required
  • Briggs, Robin. Witches and Neighbors .
    Listed reading
  • Cohn, Bernard. Europe’s Inner demons .
    Listed reading
  • Demos, John. Entertaining Satan .
    Listed reading
  • Levack, Brian, ed. Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, v.3, Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe: General Studies .
    Listed reading
  • Levack, Brian, ed. New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, v.4, Gender and Witchcraft .
    Listed reading
  • Rosenthal, Bernard. Salem Story .
    Listed reading
  • Sharpe, James. Instruments of Darkness .
    Listed reading
  • Willis, Deborah. Malevolent Nurture .
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 3 · Topics: Film, The Holy Ghost people ( PDF ) · Readings: Covington, all. ↗
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 5 · Topics: Film, Secrets of the Psychics · Readings: Braude. Radical Spirits . Chapters 1-4.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 6 · Topics: Film, Telegrams From the Dead ( PDF ) · Readings: Braude. Chapters 5-8. ↗
    Reading assignment
  • Levack. Chapters 1-3
    Listed reading
  • Film, Strange Beliefs
    Listed reading
  • Levack. Chapters 6.
    Listed reading
  • Levack. Chapters 7-8.
    Listed reading
  • Boyer & Nissenbaum. Chapter 1.
    Listed reading
  • B&N. Chapters 2-5
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 17 · Topics: Visit Salem Village (Danvers) ( PDF ) · Readings: B&N. Chapters 6-8. ↗
    Reading assignment
Sources