It’s ambiguous in-universe whether demons are real at all. The Claravian magisterium discourages even discussing them, as they see it as a Morton’s fork of “they don’t exist so you’re wasting your time” or “they do exist and the best thing to do is ignore them”.
The closest thing that the Bright Way has to an exorcism is a simple blessing by a hearthkeeper, accompanied by a sprinkling of blessed milk or, if the object is electronic or otherwise not waterproof, an anointing with dielectric chrism. The blessing isn’t seen as banishing evil so much as inviting good.
Neoshamanism, however, is brimming with folklore surrounding demons. This is especially true in the more experiential Agentivist branch of Neoshamanism.
Exorcism follows the logic of “if it’s intimidating to a yinrih it’ll be intimidating to a demon.” A cleric sprinkling blessed milk everywhere isn’t exactly intimidating, but you know what IS? a ripped gym bro gun nut screaming obscenities with every breath and inflicting property damage. You gotta show that demon you’re not bluffing, after all.
Logically from how I’ve developed them so far the Misotheists should have even more demonology, but I haven’t fleshed them out as much.
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In my alternate history setting in which the post office is secretly the policing force for the paranormal, exercisms have been heavily researched by the R&D department. As it turns out, repelling a paranatural force is entirely an act of willpower. For the most part, traditional exercism rituals work to reinforce the victims will and self belief to allow them to overpower the invading force themself. This isn’t reliable and has a high failure rate in subjects with a low tolerance for the unusual so instead we teach our operatives to overwhelm and subdue the offending entity via psycho-cognitive distortion and mutual psychic dominance.
In other words, opperatives exercise demons by possessing you harder.
