The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of Satanism

Part I: Satanic Ritual Abuse as a Modern Panic -- Giving the Devil More than His Due; The Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic as Religious-Studies Data; When the Devil Came to Christchurch; Satanism: Myth and Reality in a Contemporary Moral Panic; Satanism, Ritual Abuse, and Multiple Personality Disorder -- A Sociohistorical Perspective; The Social Construction of Satanism: Understanding an International Social Problem; The Social and Cultural Context of Satanic Ritual Abuse Allegations; Police Pursuit of Satanic Crime. Part II: Satanic Ritual Abuse as a Demonology -- Demonologies in Contemporary Legends and Panics: Satanism and Babyparts Stories; The Devil Worshipers at the Prom: Rumour-Panic as Therapeutic Magic; Multigenerational Satanism and the Anticult Movement: The Eternal Conspiracy; Universal Cultural Elements in the Satanic Demonology; Moral Panics and the Social Construction of Deviant Behaviour: A Theory and Application to the Case of Ritual Child Abuse. Part III: Satanism & the Media -- Newspapers and the Antisatanism Movement: A Content Analysis; Satanism as a News Item in Norway and Denmark: A Brief History; Driven by the Devil: Popular Constructions of Youth Satanist Careers; Construction of Satanism as a Social Problem in Canada; Speak of the Devil: Talk Shows and the Social Construction of Satanism. Part IV: Modern Satanism -- Magical Therapy: An Anthropological Investigation; The Church of Satan; Teenage Satanism as Oppositional Youth Subculture; Who Serves Satan? A Demographic and Ideological Profile; Rationalistic Satanism: The Individual as a Member of a Counter-cultural Tribe; Binary Satanism: The Construction of Community in a Digital World; Satanism: Performing Alterity and Othering. Part V: Primary Material -- Report of the Ritual Abuse Task Force; Investigator's Guide to Allegations of "Ritual" Child Abuse; Epistemology; Satanic Patriotism: United We Stand?; The Nine Satanic Postulates: Statements of Satano-COMMUNE-ist Reality, Satanic Comm-UNITY. Index.