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Witchcraft in Early Modern England provides a fascinating introduction to the history of witches and witchcraft in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Witchcraft was a crime punishable by death in England during this period and this book charts the witch panics and legal persecution of witches that followed, exploring topics such as elite attitudes to witchcraft in England, the role of pressures and tensions within the community in accusations of witchcraft, the way in which the legal system dealt with witchcraft cases, and the complex decline of belief in witchcraft. Revised and updated, this new edition explores the modern historiographical debate surrounding this subject and incorporates recent findings and interpretations of historians in the field, bringing it right up-to-date and in particular offering an extended treatment of the difficult issues surrounding gender and witchcraft. Supported by a range of compelling primary documents, this book is essential reading for all students of the history of witchcraft.

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Witchcraft in Early Modern England provides a fascinating introduction to the history of witches and witchcraft in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Witchcraft was a crime punishable by death in England during this period and this book charts the witch panics and legal persecution of witches that followed, exploring topics such as elite attitudes to witchcraft in England, the role of pressures and tensions within the community in accusations of witchcraft, the way in which the legal system dealt with witchcraft cases, and the complex decline of belief in witchcraft. Revised and updated, this new edition explores the modern historiographical debate surrounding this subject and incorporates recent findings and interpretations of historians in the field, bringing it right up-to-date and in particular offering an extended treatment of the difficult issues surrounding gender and witchcraft. Supported by a range of compelling primary documents, this book is essential reading for all students of the history of witchcraft.

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Serial Harry Potter karangan J. K. Rowling yang menjadi best seller dunia bukan saja mengundang pujian, tapi juga menuai protes dan pencekalan dari kelompok religius konservatif di beberapa negara bagian Amerika Serikat. Serial ini dituding menyebarkan kepercayaan akan Iblis dan mempromosikan tenung lewat sihir yang melatarbelakangi kisah dalam serial ini. Namun, pencekalan serial Harry Potter rupanya tidak terjadi di Indonesia. Pembaca Indonesia tampaknya tidak terpengaruh sama sekali dengan isu ini, walaupun bukan berarti berita tersebut tidak diketahui sama sekali oleh mereka. Dalam penelitian ini saya melakukan identifikasi dan klasifikasi terhadap para pembaca serial Harry Potter di Indonesia sehubungan dengan reaksi dan tanggapan mereka terhadap unsur sihir dalam serial tersebut. Saya juga mengungkapkan ideologi yang melatar belakangi reaksi dan tanggapan mereka tersebut. Dalam penelitian ini saya menggunakan pendekatan cultural studies, terutama melalui teori Encoding dan Decoding yang dikemukakan Stuart Hall, serta model penelitian audience research yang dilakukan oleh Ian Ang. Setelah menyelesaikan klasifikasi dan analisis ideologi terhadap para pembaca serial Harry Potter di Indonesia, saya berpendapat bahwa adalah suatu hal yang tidak mungkin untuk mendapatkan satu tafsir yang seragam terhadap sebuah teks, seperti sama tidak mungkinnya untuk menemukan satu ideologi yang terunggul yang bisa mengakomodasi semua tafsir yang ada dalam benak pembaca suatu teks. Written by an English author, J. K. Rowling, the Harry Potter series that became the world best seller not only received excellent reviews but also strong objection and banning from conservative religious groups in some parts of the United States. The series was accused of spreading Evil beliefs and promoting witchcraft through magic, which becomes the central theme of the story. The banning of the Harry Potter series did not happen in Indonesia Indonesian readers did not seem to be affected by the accusation at all. But this did not mean that Indonesian readers were completely indifferent to the news. In this research I identify and categorize Harry Potter readers in Indonesia based on their reactions and comments towards the element of magic in the series. I also analyze the ideology behind those reactions and comments. In this thesis I use the cultural studies approach, especially the Encoding Decoding theory by Stuart Hall and audience research methods used by Ian Ang. After finishing the classification and analyzing the ideology of Harry Potter readers in Indonesia, I am of the opinion that it is impossible to create one definite reading towards a text, as it is also impossible to find the best ideology that can accommodate all readings articulated by the readers.

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Dystopia: a natural history is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this book redefines the central concepts and the chronology of the genre and offers a paradigm-shifting understanding of the subject. Part I assesses the theory and prehistory of dystopia. Utopia and dystopia are portrayed not as opposites, but as extremes on a spectrum of sociability, defined by a heightened form of group identity. The prehistory of the process whereby enemies are demonized is explored from early conceptions of monstrosity through Christian conceptions of the devil and witchcraft, and the persecution of heresy. Part II surveys the major dystopian moments in twentieth-century despotisms, focusing in particular upon Nazi Germany, Stalinism, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and Cambodia under Pol Pot. The concentration here is upon the political religion hypothesis as a key explanation for the chief excesses of communism in particular. Part III examines literary dystopias. It commences well before the usual starting point in the secondary literature, in anti-Jacobin writings of the 1790s. Two chapters address the main twentieth-century texts usually studied as representative of the genre, Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four. The remainder of the section examines the evolution of the genre in the second half of the twentieth century to the present.