TEENAGE SATANISM AS OPPOSITIONAL YOUTH SUBCULTURE

This research offers an ethnographic portrait of a coven of teenage Sa tanists. It argues that the psychological, folklore, and constructioni st perspectives on Satanism are lacking an important voice-the adolesc ent Satanists themselves. By listening to them, it becomes clear that Satanism allows them to challenge the dominant culture's norms and val ues. Lacking the social power though, the Coven primarily used a symbo lic critique, through the creation of a Satanic style.