##  [Demonization](/index.php/demonization) 

  ##  [Demonization](https://religion.quantumdictionary.io/demonization-0) 

  

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**Religion, Spirituality & Esotericism Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

A social and rhetorical process in religious (and public) discourse by which persons, groups, ideas or practices are represented as malign, morally corrupt, or aligned with literal demonic agency, thereby marking them as other, dangerous, or illegitimate for the purposes of exclusion, mobilization, or moral condemnation.