The Effects of Slavery on Enslaved People and Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Arguments by Julia Jorati

“…Moreover, this strategy may further marginalize and demonize an already oppressed group and it sometimes blames, or seems to blame, enslaved people for their condition. …”
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Zagadnienie nawrócenia i pokuty w dziełach Sulpicjusza Sewera by Józef Pochwat

“…Although he writes that the miracles of driving out demons are performed by the power of the cross of Christ, and that repentance is the work of Jesus’ grace and steadfast faith and trust in God’s help, it seems that for him the person of St. …”
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Интерсемиотический и прагмасемантический анализ цикла мемов „Дворец для Путина” by Żanna Sładkiewicz

“…The comic content is viewed as a way of defusing the public tension of the sanctioned protest, an instrument for interpreting and discussing current social reality, as well as a method of demonizing a political subject “them”. The research assumes multimodality of the media environment and its products. …”
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At the Origins of the University Education System in Russia by Vasily N. Ponomarev

“…The universities were treated as hotbeds of freethinking, moral depravity, and philosophy was demonized as a source of spiritual contagion.…”
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Theft and robbery in Chrysostom's time by H. F. Stander

“…He ascribed it to the working of demons. When we are robbed, we are confronted with various choices: we can curse the robber, or we can plot against him, or we can thank God. …”
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Wilno mityczne we współczesnej prozie litewskiej by Audinga Peluritytė-Tikuišienė

“…This article focuses on two modern Lithuanian prose writers, Antanas Ramonas (1947–1993) and Ričardas Gavelis (1950–2002), whose works evoke the two most striking and different images of the same mythical Vilnius – divine and demonic, hopeful and hopeless. These two opposing images of mythical Vilnius reveal two different viewpoints on the world, on history and on the human being in modern Lithuanian literature. …”
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Eminescu – poezia naşterii şi a stingerii (elemente de antropogonie eminesciană) by Carmina Cojocaru

“…, which as an initial form (that of “meditation”) – Elena is also the first antropogonic poem, Demonism, Epigonii the two major human essences become beginnings and ends of conscious and over conscious at the same time. …”
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« Ok boomer ». Les dérives d’un même by Brigitte Battel

“…On the basis of medias, tweets and memes (available on Google), we intend to explain subsequent or concomitant resemantic forms of this expression, originally without provocative tone, that in front of economic and environmental relapses caused by the climatic change, assumed a dysphoric feature and demonized a whole generation, a particolar social class. …”
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Sword of heaven by Richard Wilson

“…It was Middleton’s tampering with Shakespeare’s text that transformed it from a drama of demonic substitution, focused on the ‘outward-sainted deputy’ [3.1.93] into an allegory of divine sovereignty, idealizing the monarch as a deus ex machina. …”
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Sword of Heaven : Political Theology in Measure for Measure by Richard Wilson

“…It was Middleton’s tampering with Shakespeare’s text that transformed it from a drama of demonic substitution, focused on the ‘outward-sainted deputy’ [3.1.93] into an allegory of divine sovereignty, idealizing the monarch as a deus ex machina. …”
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Further Reflecting on the Six-Year Primary Project of the Institute of Education, University of Ife: The Key Players by Toyin Falola, Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“…Such is the unfortunate paradigm that captures the essence of colonial education in which the lingua franca of the indigenous learner is not only backgrounded but altogether demonized in some cases. Otherwise, how else could the common warning in the typical colonial classroom “Vernacular speaking is prohibited”? …”
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African Diaspora Pentecostals Deliverance Practices and the Lived Reality in the United Kingdom by Nomatter Sande

“…African diaspora Pentecostals believe in a spirit-filled world consisting of the Holy Spirit, ancestors’ spirits, evil spirits, demons, and Satan. African diaspora deliverance practices proffer existential solutions in a spirit-filled world. …”
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Le contrôle du corps des femmes à travers l’histoire. Essai de mise en perspective de la question de la santé sexuelle et reproductive des femmes dans le monde arabe by Sophie Bessis

“…The symbolic valorization of maternal function and the demonization of femininity are part of this apparatus of constraint. …”
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The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom. A Translation by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Ọmọ Olókùn Ẹṣin by Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“…Which among the story’s many episodes should one emphasize – is it Kọ́lájọ’s demonic rampage, or Ibiwumi’s calculated risk, or Lagbogun’s greed and flagrant abuse of power and privilege? …”
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The Missionary-Colonial Forms of Marriages and Sexualities Within African Pentecostalism: A Sankofa-De-Colonial Perspective by Themba Shingange

“…The findings indicated that these agendas manifest in the form of hetero-monogamous aspirations of missionaries that undermined the African views of marriage and sexuality, thus, rendering them as demonic, backward, barbaric, and something to be forgotten. …”
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IMAGE OF RUSSIA AND RUSSIANS IN POLISH HISTORICAL FILMS (ON MATERIALS OF EXPERT INTERVIEWS) by S. I. Belov

“…The films of the period before 1939 and the post-Soviet era are related not only to the content, but also the technological side: in both cases, the creators used strategies to create images of someone else’s and phantom enemies, demonization and dehumanization. These techniques were used to reflect not only the Soviet period of Russian history, but also the pre-revolutionary era. …”
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St. John le calviniste, ou l’émule de Gil-Martin by Jean Berton

“…John and Gil-Martin stand for demonic despotism. Yet, if Gil-Martin is a straightforward Gothic illustration of Satan, St. …”
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Swoistość ludzkiej kultury - wampiryzm by Jacek Tomczyk, Anna Dygudaj

“…Initially many facts were explained with the interference of dark, demonic powers, adopting diverse forms in people’s imagination, thanks to such interpretation of reality the vampire was born to existence. …”
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Linguistic Identity with Special Reference to Western Hindi Dialects by Pallav Vishnu

“…Linguistic identities are double-edged swords because, while functioning in a positive and productive way to give people a sense of belonging, they do so by defining an “us” in opposition to a “them” that becomes all too easy to demonize. All identity markers of a social group together constitute the “culture” or cultural identity of the social group. …”
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Emily and Charlotte Brontë’s Re-reading of the Byronic hero by Cristina Ceron

“…Far from enacting mere Romantic passion, the relationship between Jane and Rochester, just like Catherine’s liaison with Heathcliff, follows the textual dynamics of the Gothic romance, in that the woman falls prey to the more or less demonic instincts of her lover, suffers from the violence of his feelings and at the end is entangled by his thwarted passion, even though when we read the domestic happy ending we tend to forget the gothic matrix of the story……”
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