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Brendan C Walsh

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Brendan C. Walsh is a sessional academic at The University of Queensland. His research specialty is early modern Reformed English Protestant demonology, focusing on the themes of demonic possession, exorcism, spiritual healing, diabolic witchcraft, and ghostly visitations. He is the author of The English Exorcist: John Darrell and the Shaping of Early Modern English Protestant Demonology (Routledge, 2021).

Articles by Brendan C

Meet the man who inspired The Pope’s Exorcist

Supernatural horror film The Pope’s Exorcist stars Russell Crowe as Father Gabriele Amorth in a fictional account of the Italian Catholic priest’s exorcism ministry, adding in a centuries-old Vatican cover-up for good measure.