ABSTRACT
The social construction of satanism is not an activity solely engaged in by hack journalists seeking lurid topics for stories, self-aggrandizing clergy seeking helpless victims for crusades, and confused members of the general public seeking simplistic explanations for contemporary evil. The construction of deviant reality in The Process can be understood from a traditional anthropological perspective called cultural relativism. For Processeans, Satan was no crude beast but an intellectual principle by which God could be unfolded into several parts, accomplishing the repaganization of religion and the remystification of the world. The founders of The Process, K. Robert and Mary Ann de Grimston, met in London in the early 1960s. The Processeans took their great chances, literally betting their lives on the Great Gods of the Universe, but they never had faith in the traditional Western sense.
