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9 maj 1993 · Claims of sexual abuse and satanic ritual unravelled the Ingram family—and escalated into a landmark case in the national obsession with cults and “recovered” memory.
5 sty 2024 · She claims Satan himself appeared during a massive ceremony called the Feast of the Beast, where the Satanists attempted to summon Satan to earth through ritualistic dancing and chanting.
Satanic accusations all have a deep history rooted in medieval Europe. The mother of all Satanic conspiracies is known as “blood libel,” the belief that Judaism is actually a Satanic cult unto itself and that Jews routinely sacrifice people, especially young children and virgin women, to Satan. The exact origins of blood libel are disputed.
Anti-cultists jumped on the Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) bandwagon as a way of promoting their own agenda, and new religious movement scholars spearheaded the academic analysis of the scare. This article presents a systematic survey of this phenomenon.
30 kwi 2024 · This paper explores the making of the Satanic Panic in the United States, a decade-long obsession with the fantasy that Satanic cults had infiltrated all aspects of American society, especially America’s daycares, and were ritually abusing young children.
The concept of Satanic ritual abuse arose in the early 1980s as broader cultural discussions and panics about child sexual abuse collided with a series of widespread rumors about subversive Satanic cults.
THE SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE PANIC AS RELIGIOUS-STUDIES DATA DAVID FRANKFURTER Summary Rumors and alleged memories of Satanic cult activity swept through the U.S. and U.K. during the 1980s and 1990s, confounding scholars of religion, as well as jurists and psychologists, with their combination of tantalizing ritual scenes and dubious forensic evidence.
