Emeritus Professor Philip Almond FAHA

His recent books include The Devil: A New Biography (Cornell UP and I.B. Tauris, 2014), The Lancashire Witches (I.B. Tauris, 2012), England’s First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and his Discoverie of Witchcraft   (I.B.Tauris 2011), Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1999, 2008), Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England (Cambridge University Press, 2004, 2008), The Witches of Warboys:  An Extraordinary Story of Sorcery, Sadism, and Satanic Possession (I.B.Tauris, 2008), Demonic Possession & Exorcism in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2004, 2007). 

Books

• God: A New Biography (London: IB Tauris, Forthcoming April 2018)
• The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill (London: I. B. Tauris, 2016, paperback edition).
• Afterlife: A History of Life After Death (London & Ithaca, N.Y:  I.B Tauris and Cornell University Press, 2016). Jenseits: Eine Geschichte des Lebens Nach Dem Tode, German tr. Manfred Weltecke (Darmstadt, Germany: Lambert Schneider Verlag, 2017).
• The Devil: A New Biography (London: I.B. Tauris, 2016, paperback edition).
• De Duivel: Een Biographie (Zoutermeer: Uitgeverij Meinema, 2015).
• The Devil:  A New Biography  (London & Ithaca, N.Y:  I.B Tauris and Cornell University Press, 2014).
• The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill (London: I.B.Tauris, 2012).
• England’s First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and his Discoverie of Witchcraft (London: I.B.Tauris, 2011).
• Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University  Press, 2008, paperback edition).
• Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, paperback edition).
• The Witches of Warboys:  An Extraordinary Story of Sorcery, Sadism, and Satanic Possession (London: I.B.Tauris, 2008).
• Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007, paperback edition).
• The British Discovery of Buddhism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, paperback edition).
• Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
• Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
• Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
• The British Discovery of Buddhism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
• Heretic and Hero: Muhammad and the Victorians. Studies in Oriental Religions Series, no.18 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1989).
• Rudolf Otto:  An Introduction to his Philosophical Theology. Studies in Religion Series (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984).
• Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine: An Investigation of the Study of Mysticism in World Religions. Religion and Reason Series, no. 26. (Berlin: Mouton, 1982).

Recent articles and book chapters

• “Science Witchcraft, and Demonology: The Saducismus Triumphatus of Joseph Glanvil and Henry More,” In Umbra: Demonology as a Semiotic System 5 (2016): 185-202.
• "Violence and Possession," in Bruce R. Smith (ed.), The Cambridge Guide to the World of Shakespeare, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 822-7.
• “John Napier and the Mathematics of the 'Middle Future’ Apocalypse,” Scottish Journal of Theology 63 (2010): 54-69.
• "John Mason and his Religion: An Enthusiastic Millenarian in late 17th-Century England," The Seventeenth Century 24 (2009): 156-76.
• "King James I and the Burning of Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft: The Invention of a Tradition," Notes and Queries 56 (2009): 209-213.
• "Thomas Brightman and the Origins of Philo-semitism: An Elizabethan Theologian and the Restoration of the Jews to Israel," Reformation and Renaissance Review 9 (2007): 3-25.
• "Adam, Pre-Adamites, and Extra-Terrestrial Beings in Early Modern Europe,” Journal of Religious History 30 (2006): 163-74.
• “‘The Witches of Warboys’:  A Bibliographical Note,” Notes and Queries 52 (2005): 192-3.

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