A Brief History of the Black Mass

Ruben van Luijk

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Pages:: 275–288

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004347083_014

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Abstract

The black Mass is an understudied form of liturgy. This article sketches its history in five tableaus, including medieval rumours, seventeenth-century magical operations, eighteenth-and nineteenth century literary fiction, and culminating in the establishment of a ‘canonical’ black Mass liturgy in the modern Church of Satan. In addition, it discusses academic efforts to define its substance and tries to discover what place we can give the black Mass in the history of religion by applying the theories of Roy A. Rappaport. 

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Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals

Encounters in Liturgical Studies

Series: Brill's Studies in Catholic Theology, Volume: 5

Cover Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004347083

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2017

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