Satanism

This Element provides a concise overview of Satanism from its origins in early modern Europe through the present. It covers legends of the black mass, hell-fire clubs, the Romantic Satanism, nineteenth-century occultists, and contemporary Satanic Panic from the 1980s through QAnon.

1. What is Satanism?; 2. Imagining the black mass; 3. Satanic sympathizers; 4. The church of satan; 5. The temple of set and esoteric satanism; 6. Satanic panic; 7. Contemporary developments in satanism; Bibliography.