Timeline for Exorcisms: effective remedy or historical curiosity?
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| Jan 1, 2015 at 4:44 | comment | added | Please stop being evil | I don't think the topic is avoided because it's taboo so much as because the identity of diocesan exorcists is generally kept secret(for obvious reasons) and the Church is fairly adept at PR/keeping secrets. Making the topic more prominent doesn't help anybody and makes the Church look bad because secrets=evil in the mind of the modern polis. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 8:03 | history | edited | user unknown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2011 at 0:24 | comment | added | user unknown |
Well - that could lead to a lengthy discussion, how mental illness is the product of a defining process of the society. I don't believe in an objective definition of health in the context of brain, consciousness and identity. I can recommend Michel Foucault, Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique – Folie et déraison, 1961 and Norbert Elias, Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation, Basel, 1939.
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| Sep 10, 2011 at 23:07 | comment | added | Marc Gravell | @user it also wouldn't amaze me if autism also fell under the vague heading of "possession" (perhaps just as much as epilepsy); it has also, of course, been horribly badly diagnosed medically in the recent past; "childhood schizophrenia", "frigid mothers", etc | |
| Sep 10, 2011 at 23:04 | comment | added | Marc Gravell | Eeeeeeek; the Milwaukee story enrages me and saddens me. Very much. The only thing I can say on that is that sadly the secular world can be just as stupid (with restraint/rebirth/etc snake oil). | |
| Sep 10, 2011 at 18:42 | history | edited | user unknown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 10, 2011 at 18:08 | history | answered | user unknown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |