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Demonology and devil-lore

by Moncure Daniel Conway

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  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907), the son of a Virginian plantation-owner, became a Unitarian minister but his anti-slavery views made him controversial. He later became a freethinker, and following the outbreak of the Civil War, which deeply divided his own family, he left the United States for England in 1863. He gained a reputation for being the 'least orthodox preacher in London', and was acquainted with many figures in the literary and scientific world, including Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin. In this two-volume work, first published in 1879, Conway draws from examples across the world to discuss the origins and decline of beliefs in demons. In Volume 2, he discusses the role that the Devil plays in Christianity (including analysis of the story of the Fall of Man), and that similar figures play in other religions, offering the view that such figures are personifications of certain human attributes.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession, Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends, and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “Occultism” in the subject metadata.

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  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref, internet-archive, online-books-page, openalex, openlibrary, openlibrary-historical, project-gutenberg, and wellcome matched “demonology” and “Demonology”. Retained metadata contains “Demonology” in the title, “demons” in the description, “Demonology” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

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  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “folklore”, “Mythology”, and “mythology”. Retained metadata contains “Folklore” in the subject metadata and “Mythology” in the subject metadata.

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    • “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “mythology”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Folklore”· in subject
    • “Mythology”· in subject

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Crossref publisher-supplied book record

2012-02-02Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press eBooksEnglish
  • 9781108044141
  • 9781108044158
  • 9781139176323
  • 9781139176330
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2 volumes in 1; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1879

1879———Source listed online copy

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1879H. Holt and Company; New York : H. Holt and Company; New York, H. Holt and CompanyEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
  • Contributing institution: University of California
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; medicalheritagelibrary
  • Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): BF1505 .C7 1879
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: 2 volumes in 1; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1879
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