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"Sinners: Jesus and His Earliest Followers": A Book Excerpt
April 15, 2011 by Greg Carey
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Notes
- Carol F. Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (New York: Norton, 1987), xiv.
- Karlsen, Devil in the Shape of a Woman, 225.
- Karlsen, Devil in the Shape of a Woman, 122.
- John Demos, "Underlying Themes in the Witchcraft of Seventeenth Century New England," in Religion in American History: Interpretive Essays (ed. John M. Mulder and John F. Wilson; Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978), 87; see John Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (New York: oxford University Press, 1982).
- Demos, "Underlying Themes," 93-94, 99-100.
- Demos, "Underlying Themes," 92.
- James M. Morone, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 82-83.
- Jerome H. Neyrey, Paul, in Other Words (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1990), 184-86. Neyrey relies on the work of Mary Douglas, "Thirty Years After Witchcraft, oracles, and Magic," in Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations (ed. Mary Douglas; New York: Tavistock Publications, 1970), xiii-xxxviii. See The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion (ed. Jonathan Z. Smith; San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995), 1133-34.
- Jeff Robinson, "Mohler Message on Family Life Today: Don't Put off Marriage," Baptist Press. www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=18611. Accessed 30 June 2004.
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