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Julian Goodare - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context
The Eighteenth Century, 2004Co-Authors: Julian GoodareAbstract:Preface List of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on contributors 1. Introduction - Julian Goodare 2. The global context of the Scottish Witch-Hunt - Ronald Hutton 3. In search of the Devil in Fife Witchcraft cases, 1560-1705 - Stuart MacDonald 4. The Scottish Witchcraft panic of 1597 - Julian Goodare 5. The Devil and the domestic: Witchcraft, quarrels and women's work in Scotland - Lauren Martin 6. Devices and directions: folk healing aspects of Witchcraft practice in seventeenth-century Scotland - Joyce Miller 7. Hunting the rich Witch in Scotland: high-status Witchcraft suspects and their persecutors, 1590-1650 - Louise Yeoman 8. Witch-Hunting and the Scottish state - Julian Goodare 9. The western Witch-Hunt of 1697-1700: the last major Witch-Hunt in Scotland - Michael Wasser 10. The decline and end of Scottish Witch-Hunting - Brian P. Levack 11. Witch-Hunting, Witchcraft and Witch historiography: England and Scotland compared - James A. Sharpe 12. The last of the Witches: the survival of Scottish Witch belief - Edward J. Cowan and Lizanne Henderson Further Reading
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The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context
The Eighteenth Century, 2004Co-Authors: Julian GoodareAbstract:Preface List of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on contributors 1. Introduction - Julian Goodare 2. The global context of the Scottish Witch-Hunt - Ronald Hutton 3. In search of the Devil in Fife Witchcraft cases, 1560-1705 - Stuart MacDonald 4. The Scottish Witchcraft panic of 1597 - Julian Goodare 5. The Devil and the domestic: Witchcraft, quarrels and women's work in Scotland - Lauren Martin 6. Devices and directions: folk healing aspects of Witchcraft practice in seventeenth-century Scotland - Joyce Miller 7. Hunting the rich Witch in Scotland: high-status Witchcraft suspects and their persecutors, 1590-1650 - Louise Yeoman 8. Witch-Hunting and the Scottish state - Julian Goodare 9. The western Witch-Hunt of 1697-1700: the last major Witch-Hunt in Scotland - Michael Wasser 10. The decline and end of Scottish Witch-Hunting - Brian P. Levack 11. Witch-Hunting, Witchcraft and Witch historiography: England and Scotland compared - James A. Sharpe 12. The last of the Witches: the survival of Scottish Witch belief - Edward J. Cowan and Lizanne Henderson Further Reading
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Men and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland
Social History, 1998Co-Authors: Julian GoodareAbstract:The Scottish Witch-Hunt was one of the more severe in Protestant Europe. Out of a population of approximately 1 million, about 4000 Witches were formally accused, and perhaps 2500 were executed. Scotland, with something over two executions per thousand of population, thus had four times the European average of 0.5 executions per thousand.1 Of course, the European average conceals wide variations, but it should be borne in mind that Scotland’s Witch-Hunt was not merely more severe than its neighbour England’s; it was severe in absolute terms. Witch-Hunting involved a web of power, and Scotland is an important place in which to study the various roles that men played in it — as Witchcraft victims, as Witchcraft prosecutors and, sometimes (though not often), as Witches themselves.
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Men and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland
Social History, 1998Co-Authors: Julian GoodareAbstract:The Scottish Witch-Hunt was one of the more severe in Protestant Europe. Out of a population of approximately 1 million, about 4000 Witches were formally accused, and perhaps 2500 were executed. Scotland, with something over two executions per thousand of population, thus had four times the European average of 0.5 executions per thousand.1 Of course, the European average conceals wide variations, but it should be borne in mind that Scotland’s Witch-Hunt was not merely more severe than its neighbour England’s; it was severe in absolute terms. Witch-Hunting involved a web of power, and Scotland is an important place in which to study the various roles that men played in it — as Witchcraft victims, as Witchcraft prosecutors and, sometimes (though not often), as Witches themselves.
Chris Beckett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Witch‐Hunt Metaphor (And Accusations against Residential Care Workers)
British Journal of Social Work, 2002Co-Authors: Chris BeckettAbstract:Summary This Critical Commentary examines the widespread use of the metaphor of the Witch Hunt in relation to child sexual abuse investigations when they are perceived as being unjustified. The use of this metaphor can be seen to be part of a backlash, part of a widespread desire to discredit the evidence that sexual abuse is widespread. However, it is argued here that the metaphor is actually quite apt in the case of the recent wave of convictions of residential care workers, where the methods used have been quite suspect—and genuinely reminiscent in some respects of those used in historic Witch Hunts. It is suggested that legitimate child protection will ultimately be the loser if this
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the Witch Hunt metaphor and accusations against residential care workers
British Journal of Social Work, 2002Co-Authors: Chris BeckettAbstract:Summary This Critical Commentary examines the widespread use of the metaphor of the Witch Hunt in relation to child sexual abuse investigations when they are perceived as being unjustified. The use of this metaphor can be seen to be part of a backlash, part of a widespread desire to discredit the evidence that sexual abuse is widespread. However, it is argued here that the metaphor is actually quite apt in the case of the recent wave of convictions of residential care workers, where the methods used have been quite suspect—and genuinely reminiscent in some respects of those used in historic Witch Hunts. It is suggested that legitimate child protection will ultimately be the loser if this
Cynthia Grant Bowman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the legal system and child sex abuse ross cheit s the Witch Hunt narrative politics psychology and the sexual abuse of children
Law and Social Inquiry-journal of The American Bar Foundation, 2016Co-Authors: Cynthia Grant BowmanAbstract:Cheit, Ross E. 2014. The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. xvii + 508. $49.95 cloth. The prosecution of child sex abuse in cases involving very young children presents difficult problems for the justice system. Ross Cheit's book The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (2014) addresses these problems in the context of the 1980s cases involving daycare centers. While the conventional conclusion drawn from these cases is that young children are not credible witnesses, Cheit's examination of the trial records in these cases reveals credible evidence of abuse in many, as well as evidence of injustice attributable to untrained and/or overenthusiastic interviewers. Cheit's examination of this litigation provides an opportunity to evaluate the legal system's treatment of child witnesses in sex abuse cases, as well as to discuss the appropriate use of social scientific evidence in litigation, the impact of mass media accounts on public policy, and the respective merits of criminal versus civil lawsuits in child sex abuse cases.
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The Legal System and Child Sex Abuse—Ross Cheit's The Witch‐Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children
Law & Social Inquiry, 2016Co-Authors: Cynthia Grant BowmanAbstract:Cheit, Ross E. 2014. The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. xvii + 508. $49.95 cloth. The prosecution of child sex abuse in cases involving very young children presents difficult problems for the justice system. Ross Cheit's book The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (2014) addresses these problems in the context of the 1980s cases involving daycare centers. While the conventional conclusion drawn from these cases is that young children are not credible witnesses, Cheit's examination of the trial records in these cases reveals credible evidence of abuse in many, as well as evidence of injustice attributable to untrained and/or overenthusiastic interviewers. Cheit's examination of this litigation provides an opportunity to evaluate the legal system's treatment of child witnesses in sex abuse cases, as well as to discuss the appropriate use of social scientific evidence in litigation, the impact of mass media accounts on public policy, and the respective merits of criminal versus civil lawsuits in child sex abuse cases.
Jean Greisch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Correction to: The logic of hatred and its social and historical expressions: From the great Witch-Hunt to terror and present-day djihadism
Continental Philosophy Review, 2020Co-Authors: Jean GreischAbstract:The article "The logic of hatred and its social and historical expressions: From the great Witch-Hunt to terror and present-day djihadism," written by Jean Greisch, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s Internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on March 2020 with open access.
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The logic of hatred and its social and historical expressions: From the great Witch-Hunt to terror and present-day djihadism
Continental Philosophy Review, 2020Co-Authors: Jean GreischAbstract:In two important books, the French philosopher Jacob Rogozinski analyses the logic of hatred underlying the great Witch-Hunt at the beginning of modern times, the period of terror following the French and the Russian Revolution and present-day djihadism. According to his analysis, the same logic of hatred is at work in these historical phenomena. The confrontation with the martyrs-murderers of djihadism, challenges the self-understanding of the defenders of democracy. Just as, on the level of religion, one must give up the dream of a reformation that would make Islam more « moderate », and help the Islamic believers become more radical, but otherwise than more fanatical, by rediscovering their forgotten treasures, on a political level, democracy too needs to be radicalized.
Sean Armstrong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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stalin s Witch Hunt magical thinking in the great terror
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 2009Co-Authors: Sean ArmstrongAbstract:Abstract Although Stalin’s Great Terror is commonly called a ‘Witch‐Hunt’, few take the comparison seriously. This article demonstrates that the Terror conforms in most important ways to the pattern of Witch‐Hunting established in early modern Europe and worldwide. Bolshevik theory reinforced magical ways of thinking that remained potent, so that the Terror truly was a secular Witch‐Hunt. New light is cast on issues that have remained resistant to understanding, such as why the Terror was so virulent and irrational, why it was supported by the population at large, and why confession was so important.
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Stalin’s Witch‐Hunt: Magical Thinking in the Great Terror
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 2009Co-Authors: Sean ArmstrongAbstract:Abstract Although Stalin’s Great Terror is commonly called a ‘Witch‐Hunt’, few take the comparison seriously. This article demonstrates that the Terror conforms in most important ways to the pattern of Witch‐Hunting established in early modern Europe and worldwide. Bolshevik theory reinforced magical ways of thinking that remained potent, so that the Terror truly was a secular Witch‐Hunt. New light is cast on issues that have remained resistant to understanding, such as why the Terror was so virulent and irrational, why it was supported by the population at large, and why confession was so important.
