Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees

In Washington, D. C., in August 1985 just before the Assembly where the present paper was presented: the contributions have since appeared in Alf Hiltebeitel, ed., Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees (Albany: Suny Press, 1989). I am indebted to Alf Hiltebeitel not only for having presided at the Madison conference, but also for inviting me to review the proceedings of his own conference within what I regard to be the more fundamental, global, and immediate problem of transgressive sacrality.