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Suggested Reading List

Dyrendal, AsbjØrn, James R. Lewis, and Jesper AA. Petersen. 2016. The Invention of Satanism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ellis, Bill. 2000. Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.

Faxneld, Per and Jesper Aa. Petersen (eds.). 2012. The Devil’s Party: Satanism in Modernity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

La Fontaine, Jean. 2016. Witches and Demons: A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism. Oxford: Berghahn Books

Fry, Carrol L. 2008. Cinema of the Occult: New Age, Satanism, Wicca, and Spiritualism in Film. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press.

Introvigne, Massimo. 2016. Satanism: A Social History. Leiden: Brill.

Laycock, Joseph P. 2020. Speak of the Devil: How the Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

LaVey, Anton Szandor. 1969. The Satanic Bible. New York, NY: Avon Books.

LaVey, Anton Szandor. 1976. The Satanic Rituals. New York, NY: Avon Books.

Lewis, James R. 2001. Satanism Today: An Encyclopedia of Religion, Folklore, and Popular Culture. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc.

Lord, Evelyn. 2008. The Hellfire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Van Luijk, Ruben. 2016. Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Matthews, Chris. 2009. Modern Satanism: Anatomy of a Radical Subculture. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Oldridge, Darren. 2012. The Devil: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Oldridge, Darren (ed.). 2020. The Witchcraft Reader. Third Edition. London: Routledge. 

Petersen, Jesper Aagaard (ed.), 2016. Contemporary Religious Satanism: A Critical Anthology. London: Routledge.

Richardson, James T., Joel Best, David G. Bromley (eds.). [1991] 2017. The Satanism Scare. London: Routledge.

Schock, Peter A. 2003. Romantic Satanism: Myth and the Historical Moment in Blake, Shelley, and Byron. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Starr, Lilith. 2015. The Happy Satanist: Finding Self- Empowerment. Lilith Starr Studios

Starr, Lilith. 2021. Compassionate Satanism: An Introduction to Modern Satanic Practice. Lilith Starr Publishing.

Ziegler, Robert. 2012. Satanism, Magic and Mysticism in Fin-de Siècle France. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

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