Spirit possession and trance : new interdisciplinary perspectives /

Spirit possession is a phenomenon that often elicits a response of fear, particular in those who are ignorant of its meaning and role within its particular religious and cultural traditions. Possession by divine beings (such as spirits or gods) is, however, €a key practice in religions worldwide. It...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schmidt, Bettina E., Huskinson, Lucy, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010.
Colección:Continuum advances in religious studies.
Temas:
Spirit possession.
Trance.
Altered states of consciousness.
Possession par les esprits.
Transe.
États modifiés de conscience.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Devotional.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > General.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Inspiration & Personal Growth.
RELIGION > Spirituality.
Altered states of consciousness
Spirit possession
Trance
Besatthet.
Extas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Lucy Huskinson and Bettina E. Schmist
  • Animism rather than shamanism : new approaches to what shamans do (for other animists) / Graham Harvey
  • Possession and self-possession : towards an integrated mind-body perspective / Geoffrey Samuel
  • Spirit possession, seduction, and collective consciousness / Louise Child
  • Analytical psychology and spirit possession : towards a non-pathological diagnosis of spirit possession / Lucy Huskinson
  • Possessed women in the African diaspora : gender difference in spirit possession rituals / Bettina E. Schmist
  • Somali Saar in the era of social and religious change / Marja Tiilikainen
  • Taking possession of Santo Daime : the growth of umbanda within a Brazilian new religion / Andrew Dawson
  • Spirit attacks in Northern Namibia : interpreting a new phenomenon in an African Lutheran context / Kim Groop
  • Divine possession and divination in the Graeco-Roman world : the evidence from Iamblichus's On the mysteries / Crystal Addey
  • Waking the entranced : reassessing spiritualist mediumship through a comparison of spiritualist and shamanic spirit possession practices / David Gordon Wilson
  • To perform possession and to be possessed in performance : the actor, the medium and an 'other' / Sarah Goldingay
  • On the transformation of the spirit possession film : towards rouch as 'emergent method' / Saër Maty Bâ.

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