TEENAGE SATANISM AS OPPOSITIONAL YOUTH SUBCULTURE
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
- Vol. 23 (4) , 453-484
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089124195023004003
Abstract
This research offers an ethnographic portrait of a coven of teenage Satanists. It argues that the psychological, folklore, and constructionist perspectives on Satanism are lacking an important voice—the adolescent Satanists themselves. By listening to them, it becomes clear that Satanism allows them to challenge the dominant culture's norms and values. Lacking the social power though, the Coven primarily used a symbolic critique, through the creation of a Satanic style.Keywords
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