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100 1 a| White, David Gordone| author.=| ^A432767;

245 10 a| Daemons are forever :b| contacts and exchanges in the Eurasian pandemonium /c| David Gordon White.;

246 3 a| Demons are forever;

264 1 a| Chicago :b| The University of Chicago Press,c| 2021.;

300 a| 313 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations (some color) ;c| 23 cm.;

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490 1 a| Silk roads;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Dæmon-ology -- Of Filth and Phylacteries -- The Demons Are in the Details: Demonological Sciences and Technologies, East and West -- Medieval and Modern Child Abductions -- Odysseus in Taprobane -- Perilous Fountains -- Imagining a Connected History of Religions.;

520 a| "Historian of religions David Gordon White's Daemons Are Forever leads the reader on a sweeping tour of Indo-European traditions by focusing on the fascinating and seemingly ubiquitous central figure of the "daemon." White's journey along the Eurasian Silk Roads undertakes a close examination of ritual and myth, connecting multiple traditions through their shared imagining of human-daemon encounters. Over the course of this rollicking study, White shows how supernatural beings predating the advent of Christianity in Europe and classical Hinduism and Buddhism in South Asia underwent several transformations over time, as different cultures appropriated these creatures and gave them new forms and uses along the way. This book is slated to become a touchstone of the field and to provoke wide-ranging, passionate discussion over the uses and abuses of comparison, as well as the proper task of cross-cultural religious history"--c| Provided by publisher;

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650 0 a| Mythology, Indo-European.=| ^A25586;

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Daemons are forever : contacts and exchanges in the Eurasian pandemonium / David Gordon White.

Author/creator	White, David Gordon author.
Format	Book
Publication	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Copyright Date	©2021
Description	313 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Demonology--History. Mythology, Indo-European.

Variant title	Demons are forever
Series	Silk roads Silk roads (Chicago, Ill.) ^A1360315
Contents	Dæmon-ology -- Of Filth and Phylacteries -- The Demons Are in the Details: Demonological Sciences and Technologies, East and West -- Medieval and Modern Child Abductions -- Odysseus in Taprobane -- Perilous Fountains -- Imagining a Connected History of Religions.
Abstract	"Historian of religions David Gordon White's Daemons Are Forever leads the reader on a sweeping tour of Indo-European traditions by focusing on the fascinating and seemingly ubiquitous central figure of the "daemon." White's journey along the Eurasian Silk Roads undertakes a close examination of ritual and myth, connecting multiple traditions through their shared imagining of human-daemon encounters. Over the course of this rollicking study, White shows how supernatural beings predating the advent of Christianity in Europe and classical Hinduism and Buddhism in South Asia underwent several transformations over time, as different cultures appropriated these creatures and gave them new forms and uses along the way. This book is slated to become a touchstone of the field and to provoke wide-ranging, passionate discussion over the uses and abuses of comparison, as well as the proper task of cross-cultural religious history"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Ebook version : White, David Gordon. Daemons are forever. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021 9780226715063
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2020026851
ISBN	9780226692401 (hardcover)
ISBN	022669240X (hardcover)
ISBN	9780226714905 (paperback)
ISBN	022671490X (paperback)
ISBN	(electronic book)

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