The religion of fools? : superstition past and present / edited by S.A. Smith and Alan Knight.

Oxford : Oxford Journals, 2008.

350 pages ; 22 cm.

Superstition in a non-Christian context. Before superstition and after: Theophrastus and Plutarch on Deisidaimonia / Hugh Bowden ; Superstitio, superstition and religious repression in the Late Roman Republic and Principate (100 BCE-300 CE) / Richard Gordon ; Superstition and its others in Han, China / T.H. Barrett -- Superstition in Christendom. Concern over superstition in Late Medieval Europe / Michael D. Bailey ; "Honeyed flies" and "Sugared rats": witchcraft, heresy, and superstition in the Bresciano, 1454-1535 / Stephen Bowd ; "Superstition", magic and clerical polemic in seventeenth century Germany / Alison Rowlands ; Recording superstition in early modern Britain: the origins of folklore / Alexandra Walsham ; Superstition in Imperial Russia / Simon Dixon -- Superstition in the modern world. superstition in Mexico: from Colonial church to secular state / Alan Kinght ; Mokoagne moni: sorcery and new forms of wealth in Cameroon / Basile Ndjio ; Imperial secrets: vampires and nationhood in Puerto Rico / Lauren Derby ; Witchcraft and the state: Cameroon and South Africa, ambiguities of "reality" and "superstition" / Peter Geschiere.

Includes bibliographical references and index.