Deliverance ministry Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Prominent figures== [[Frank Hammond]] and his wife Ida Mae have been called "perhaps the most influential practitioners of deliverance ministry."<ref name="Reece">Gregory L. Reece, ''Creatures of the Night: In Search of Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves and Demons'', I. B. Tauris, 2012, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PhUCrpIqmX4C&pg=PA149 p. 149].</ref> Their book ''Pigs in the Parlor: A Practical Guide to Deliverance,'' published in 1973, is one of the most influential books on the topic,<ref name="Reece"/> and has sold over a million copies.<ref name="Cuneo">Michael Cuneo, ''[[American Exorcism]]'', Random House, 2010, pp. 107β109.</ref> In diagnosing demonic presence, they focused more on the moral, ethical, and spiritual signs of possession rather than more dramatic physical manifestations like writhing on the ground.<ref name="Reece" /> As the title indicates, their book takes less of a theoretical/theological approach to deliverance; it's meant to be used by believers in real-life situations and includes tools like seven signs of [[demonic possession]] and how to recognize when a demon has departed following a ritual.<ref name="Reece" /> [[Bob Larson|Reverend Bob Larson]] has also achieved widespread public notoriety, not just within the deliverance ministry movement itself. Larson is known for drawing media attention to deliverance practices; he performs exorcisms in front of live [[audience]]s, teaches [[exorcism]] workshops, and even had his own [[Reality television|reality TV]] show, bringing a sort of theatrical quality to exorcism.<ref name="Reece" /> His daughter Brynne and her friends Tess and Savannah were featured on [[news]] channels in 2012 under the title "the teenage exorcists,"<ref name=":0" /> even gaining the attention of [[News agency|news organizations]] and publications as well known as [[BBC News]]<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Wallis|first1=Lucy|date=2013-09-10|title=Meet America's teenage exorcists|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23986595|access-date=2020-05-20}}</ref> and [[People (magazine)|People magazine]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=How the Teenage Exorcists Got Their New Name|url=https://people.com/celebrity/how-the-teenage-exorcists-got-their-new-name/|website=PEOPLE.com|language=EN|access-date=2020-05-20}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page