Author | Jean Sybil La Fontaine |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Subject | Satanic ritual abuse |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date | 1998 |
Pages | 224 |
ISBN | 0-521-62934-9 |
OCLC | 36548968 |
364.15/554/0941 21 | |
LC Class | HV6626.54.G7 L3 1998 |
Speak of the Devil: Tales of Satanic Abuse in Contemporary England is a scholarly book by J. S. La Fontaine published in 1998 that discusses her investigation of allegations of satanic ritual abuse made in the United Kingdom. The book documents a detailed investigation of the accounts of children during a wave of allegations of satanic ritual abuse, as well as the processes within the social work profession that supported the allegations despite a lack of evidence. [1]
The book was reviewed by Joel Best, [2] T. M. Luhrmann, [3] James Beckford, [4] and I. K. Wier. [5] Robin Woffitt of the University of Surrey praised the book for clearly describing the origins of the satanic ritual abuse moral panic in the United Kingdom. [1]
The English archaeologist Timothy Taylor critically discussed Fontaine's work in his book The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death (2002). He compared the work to the anthropologist William Arens's 1979 book The Man-Eating Myth, which he described as a "hollow certainty of viscerally insulated inexperience". Asserting that Arens's uses a flawed methodology that has echoes of Speak of the Devil, Taylor himself suggests that multiple claims of the Satanic ritual abuse have been incorrectly dismissed for being considered "improbable". [6]
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Author | Jean Sybil La Fontaine |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Subject | Satanic ritual abuse |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date | 1998 |
Pages | 224 |
ISBN | 0-521-62934-9 |
OCLC | 36548968 |
364.15/554/0941 21 | |
LC Class | HV6626.54.G7 L3 1998 |
Speak of the Devil: Tales of Satanic Abuse in Contemporary England is a scholarly book by J. S. La Fontaine published in 1998 that discusses her investigation of allegations of satanic ritual abuse made in the United Kingdom. The book documents a detailed investigation of the accounts of children during a wave of allegations of satanic ritual abuse, as well as the processes within the social work profession that supported the allegations despite a lack of evidence. [1]
The book was reviewed by Joel Best, [2] T. M. Luhrmann, [3] James Beckford, [4] and I. K. Wier. [5] Robin Woffitt of the University of Surrey praised the book for clearly describing the origins of the satanic ritual abuse moral panic in the United Kingdom. [1]
The English archaeologist Timothy Taylor critically discussed Fontaine's work in his book The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death (2002). He compared the work to the anthropologist William Arens's 1979 book The Man-Eating Myth, which he described as a "hollow certainty of viscerally insulated inexperience". Asserting that Arens's uses a flawed methodology that has echoes of Speak of the Devil, Taylor himself suggests that multiple claims of the Satanic ritual abuse have been incorrectly dismissed for being considered "improbable". [6]
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