The Daemonic Imagination (1990 Detweiler / Doty), edited volume

The Daemonic Imagination: Biblical Text and Secular Story (1990) is a volume edited by Robert Detweiler and William G. Doty.

Abstract

Papers presented at a colloquy held in Boston in 1987, sponsored by the American Academy of Religion.

Editions and translations

Published in Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1990.

Table of contents

• Introduction: from chaos to legion to chance: the double play of apocalyptic and mimesis / Robert Detweiler

• Cries from the graveyard : a sermon / Eugene L. Lowry

• The language of demonic possession : a key-word analysis / Ken Frieden

• Biblical exorcism and reader response to ritual in narrative / Carol Schersten LaHurd

• Siding from the swine: a moral problem for narrative / David Jasper

• The demons of Gerasa / René Girard

• Narrative identity and religious identity / David Pellauer

• Narrative hunger / Barbara DeConcini

• Destroying death : Jesus in Mark and Joseph in "The sin eater" / Mark McVann

• Hidden since the foundation of the world : Girard, Turner, and two mythic readings / David Scott Arnold

• The redemptive text / Dorothy Figueira

• Sin eating and sin making : the power and limits of language / Martha Burdette

• The old in/out / Ann-Janine Morey

• Margaret Atwood and St. Mark: the shape of the gaps / Terence R. Wright

• Afterword: sacret pigs and secular cookies : Mark and Atwood go postmodern / William G. Doty

• The sin eater / Margaret Atwood

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