Demonic Machinations and Cognitive Mechanisms: Cognitive Insights into Early Monastic Demonology.
This contribution aims to gain new insight into early monastic demonology by situating the relationship between monks and demons in the context of the monastic discipline of attention (προσοχή, νῆψις), as it was practiced by the desert fathers and their followers. For late antique Christian monks, t...
| Published in: | Journal of Religion Vol. 102; no. 1; pp. 1 - 27 |
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