Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: 'Small Gods' at the Margins of Christendom

Considers the historical relationship between Christianity and 'small gods', including fairies, demons and nature spiritsBrings together scholarship from a wide range of of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary approaches
Examines case studies spanning two thousand years, from Egypt to the Andes and Indonesia

Author: Michael Ostling
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/21/2017
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781137585196

About the Author
Michael Ostling is Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University, USA, and Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, Australia. Author of Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland (2011), he writes on witchcraft, popular religion, history of emotions, theory in Religious Studies, and critical pedagogy.