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Purging daily demons: what's behind the popularity of exorcisms?

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imageAn exorcism being performed in Fafe, Portugal.Jose Manuel Ribeiro/Reuters

At Texas State University, I teach an honors course called “Demonology, Possession, and Exorcism.” It’s not a gut course. My students produce research papers on topics that range from the role of sleep paralysis in reports of demonic attacks to contemporary...

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