Books by Philip C. (University of Queensland) Almond

Philip Almond explores the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in seventeenth-century English thought. He creates a vivid picture of the mainstream and marginal theological and philosophical readings of the Edenic tradition, and of its central role in the major intellectual issues, both religious and secular.

This book is devoted to demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England, and offers modernized versions of significant texts on nine cases of demonic possession from the period 1570 to 1650. The modernized texts are placed within the context of an introduction to demonic possession in England across the period.

This book examines the British discovery of Buddhism during the Victorian period. It was only during the nineteenth century that Buddhism became, in the western mind, a religious tradition separate from Hinduism. As a result, Buddha emerged from a realm of myth and was addressed as a historical figure.