David Gordon White is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books, including The Alchemical Body, Kiss of the Yogini, and Sinister Yogis, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

• List of AbbreviationsNote on Translations1 Dæmon-ology2 Of Filth and Phylacteries3 The Demons Are in the Details: Demonological Sciences and Technologies, East and West4 Medieval and Modern Child Abductions5 Odysseus in Taprobane6 Perilous Fountains7 Imagining a Connected History of ReligionsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

"David Gordon White’s new book, Dæmons are Forever: Contacts and Exchangesin the Eurasian Pandemonium, is one of the most significant monographs in the academic study of religion in recent years. With impressive geographical and temporal scopes—ranging from East and South Asia all the way to Northern and Western Europe, and from reconstructed prehistorical protomyths to  contemporary ethnography—the book impressively attempts to narrate the long story of vital religious contacts and exchanges across Eurasia. . . . Dæmons are Forever charts a path for future insights into Eurasia’s interconnected histories."

David Gordon White is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books, including The Alchemical Body, Kiss of the Yogini, and Sinister Yogis, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

• List of AbbreviationsNote on Translations1 Dæmon-ology2 Of Filth and Phylacteries3 The Demons Are in the Details: Demonological Sciences and Technologies, East and West4 Medieval and Modern Child Abductions5 Odysseus in Taprobane6 Perilous Fountains7 Imagining a Connected History of ReligionsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

"David Gordon White’s new book, Dæmons are Forever: Contacts and Exchangesin the Eurasian Pandemonium, is one of the most significant monographs in the academic study of religion in recent years. With impressive geographical and temporal scopes—ranging from East and South Asia all the way to Northern and Western Europe, and from reconstructed prehistorical protomyths to  contemporary ethnography—the book impressively attempts to narrate the long story of vital religious contacts and exchanges across Eurasia. . . . Dæmons are Forever charts a path for future insights into Eurasia’s interconnected histories."

David Gordon White is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books, including The Alchemical Body, Kiss of the Yogini, and Sinister Yogis, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

• List of AbbreviationsNote on Translations1 Dæmon-ology2 Of Filth and Phylacteries3 The Demons Are in the Details: Demonological Sciences and Technologies, East and West4 Medieval and Modern Child Abductions5 Odysseus in Taprobane6 Perilous Fountains7 Imagining a Connected History of ReligionsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

"David Gordon White’s new book, Dæmons are Forever: Contacts and Exchangesin the Eurasian Pandemonium, is one of the most significant monographs in the academic study of religion in recent years. With impressive geographical and temporal scopes—ranging from East and South Asia all the way to Northern and Western Europe, and from reconstructed prehistorical protomyths to  contemporary ethnography—the book impressively attempts to narrate the long story of vital religious contacts and exchanges across Eurasia. . . . Dæmons are Forever charts a path for future insights into Eurasia’s interconnected histories."