Keyword

satanic panic

Description: A moral panic involving widespread fears or allegations of satanic activity, particularly claims of ritual abuse.

Primary topic: Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (26%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q1268748

OpenAlex ID: keywords/satanic-panic

Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend

1994 · Joseph E. Davis, Jeffrey S. Victor · Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · 130

You Are Here

2021 · Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner · The MIT Press eBooks · 117

Moral Panics and the Social Construction of Deviant Behavior: A Theory and Application to the Case of Ritual Child Abuse

1998 · Jeffrey S. Victor · Sociological Perspectives · 100

The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic

2004 · Mary de Young · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 95

The Satanism Scare

1991 · Marion S. Goldman, James T. Richardson, et al. · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 94

Mystics and messiahs: cults and new religions in American history

2000 · Choice Reviews Online · 84

Mystics and Messiahs

2000 · Philip Jenkins · 81

But Seriously Folks: The Limitations of the Strict Constructionist Interpretation of Social Problems

2017 · Joel Best · Routledge eBooks · 59

Satanism in the Courts: From Murder to Heavy Metal

2017 · James T. Richardson · Routledge eBooks · 53

Modern occult rhetoric: mass media and the drama of secrecy in the twentieth century

2006 · Choice Reviews Online · 48

Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media

2004 · Journal of American Folklore · 47

Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend

1994 · Thomas Robbins, Jeffrey S. Victor · Sociology of Religion · 40

Speak of the Devil Jeffrey S. Victor .Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend. Chicago and LaSalle, IL, Open Court, 1993.

1994 · Marilyn Nagy · The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal · 35

Satanic panic: the creation of a contemporary legend

1993 · Choice Reviews Online · 34

Another man’s memories: Masculine trauma and Satanic Panic in The Believers (1987) and Angel Heart (1987)

2022 · Charlotte Gough · Horror Studies · 33

American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970–2000

2016 · SARAH HUGHES · Journal of American Studies · 29

Satanists and nuts: the role of schisms in modern Satanism

2009 · Jesper Aagaard Petersen · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 21

‘Satan has come to Rietfontein’: Race in South Africa's Satanic Panic

2012 · Nicky Falkof · Journal of Southern African Studies · 19

Painted Black: From Drug Killings to Heavy Metal--The Alarming True Story of How Satanism is Terrorizing Our Communities.

1991 · Jonathon S. Epstein, Carl A. Raschke · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 18

Rooted in the occult revival: Neo-paganism’s evolving relationship with popular media

2009 · Peg Aloi · BRILL eBooks · 14

Satanism

2023 · Joseph P. Laycock · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 13

The Meme’s-Eye View of Strategic Communication: A Case Study of Social Movements from a Memetic Perspective

2023 · Jens Seiffert-Brockmann, Bradley Wiggins, et al. · International Journal of Strategic Communication · 13

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Game Wizards

2021 · Jon Peterson · The MIT Press eBooks · 13

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Horror movies at home: Supernatural horror, delivery systems and 1980s Satanic Panic

2015 · Drew Beard · Horror Studies · 13

Legend-Trips and Satanism: Adolescents’ Ostensive Traditions as “Cult” Activity

2017 · Bill Ellis · Routledge eBooks · 12

Works count: 352

Citation count: 1,424