A devil of a book …

… On Exorcizing Demons. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

It would be a mistake to think of exorcisms as even singularly Christian, a point made admirably clear in the Penguin anthology, which includes pagan, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Indigenous accounts of exorcisms. What’s most unsettling is just how similar so many of them are, regardless of how different the cultural contexts. Inevitably, it makes an otherwise upstanding skeptical reader amenable to the suspicion that there might be something here, though what it is isn’t exactly clear.