1312: The History of Rumors of Satanic Abuse - Dr. David Frankfurter Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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🗓️ 14 May 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
As part of a multi-part series on claims of Satanic Ritual Abuse within Mormonism, today we are interviewing Dr. David Frankfurter - author of "Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History."
David Frankfurter holds the William Goodwin Aurelio Chair of the Appreciation of Scripture at Boston University. He joined the faculty of B.U. in the fall of 2010. A scholar of ancient Mediterranean religions with specialties in Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, magical texts, popular religion, and Egypt in the Roman and late antique periods, Frankfurter’s particular interests revolve around theoretical issues like the place of magic in religion, the relationship of religion and violence, the nature of Christianization, and the representation of evil in culture.
After earning his B.A. in Religion from Wesleyan University, M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and M.A./Ph.D. from Princeton University, Frankfurter taught at the College of Charleston and the University of New Hampshire, and he held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (1993-95) and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study (2007-8), as well as research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1992) and the Guggenheim Foundation (2007-8).
A HUGE thank you to Rick Phillips for making this episode possible.
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| 0:00.0 | One, two, three. |
| 0:03.0 | Come, come, you saints, no toil nor labor fear. |
| 0:28.0 | But with joy, when you're way. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm your host, Dr. John Dillin, it is July 31st, 2019. |
| 0:44.0 | And I am excited to be bringing to you another episode of Mormon Stories podcast in a multi-part series on the history of the world. |
| 0:57.0 | The history of the long history of reports of satanic ritual abuse within Mormonism. |
| 1:05.0 | For those of you who have not heard my introduction, I want to encourage you to go listen to it. |
| 1:11.0 | I spent about 40 minutes giving an introduction to this topic. |
| 1:15.0 | There's a lot of history and nuance and sensitivity that we discussed in that introduction. |
| 1:23.0 | And it's kind of important stuff. |
| 1:26.0 | So please check that out if you're able and willing. |
| 1:31.0 | But this is the next part. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm not sure in that first part, I mentioned and referenced the Glen Pace memo that we're going to reference in this episode. |
| 1:41.0 | And I'm not sure whether this episode is going to appear after or before I discuss the Glen Pace memo. |
| 1:46.0 | So I'm just going to address that right up front. |
| 1:49.0 | Regardless, we are so excited today to have with us our guest. |
| 1:56.0 | And before I introduce our wonderful guest, Dr. David Frankfurt, |
| 2:03.0 | I'm going to just give a little bit of a background to those who haven't listened to anything so far and who are disobedient in my request to hear the context. |
| 2:13.0 | For many, many decades, starting in the 80s, at least, there have been a significant number of reports of satanic ritual abuse within Mormonism within Mormon culture. |
| 2:27.0 | And in the first episode, I give my long history of experiences hearing about these reports. |
| 2:37.0 | And we also referenced the fact that around late 80s, early 90s, reports became so common and so frequent that Glen Pace, who was serving in the presiding bishopric of the Mormon church as a general authority at the time, |
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