How about Demons? - Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World

",Quite an interesting book... ", -Religious Studies Review",It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years.", -The American Rationalist",... Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatment of a compelling and much-debated subject.", -Journal of Folklore ResearchRich in detail derived from the author's fieldwork and the anthropological literature, this work paints a picture of possession as one of the usually positive and most widespread of human religious experiences. It also details the ritual of exorcism, which is applied when things go wrong.