March 15, 2002

A Sociologist Possessed by Pop Culture Explores Links to Exorcism

By BETH MCMURTRIE

One summer evening in Illinois a few years ago, about 500 people filled the chapel at Wheaton College, eager to expel their demons of sexual perversity. A well-heeled collection of Episcopalians, Lutherans, Roman Catholics, and Presbyterians, they had traveled from across the country to attend a conference sponsored by Pastoral Care Ministries, an evangelical group based in Wheaton that had promised to cure them of homosexuality and other perceived ills.

An Episcopal minister took the

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