Spirit possession : multidisciplinary approaches to a worldwide phenomenon /

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"Possession, a seemingly irrational phenomenon, has posed challenges to generations of scholars rooted in Western notions of body-soul dualism, self and personhood, and a whole set of presuppositions inherited from Christian models of possession that was "good" or "bad." The...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pócs, Éva (Editor ), Zempléni, András, 1938- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2002.
Temas:
Spirit possession.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Exorcism, body & soul, rites, demons, trance, medium, participant observation.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Front matter
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • 1 Discerning Spirit Possessions. An Introduction
  • Part I Current Constellations of Spirit Possession Concepts
  • 2 Reflecting on the Vocabulary of "Possession" in a South Indian Context
  • 3 "Incorporation Does Not Exist". The Brazilian Rejection of the Term "Possession" and Why It Exists Nonetheless
  • 4 "Figures of Return". The Catholic Church, the Holy Spirit and Embandwa Spirit Possession in Western Uganda
  • 5 Ideas about Spirit Possession and Anti-Devil Practices in the Religious Life of Some Eastern Hungarian Communities
  • 6 The Indigeneity of Spirit Possession. A Contribution to Comparative Theory
  • Part II Transitions and Thresholds of Change in Possession Concepts and Practices
  • 7 Specter, Phantom, Demon
  • 8 From Loudun to Dakar, and Back. Possession and Evil in Individualistic and NonindividualisticSocieties
  • 9 Devil Possession in the Liturgy around the Tenth and Twelfth Centuries. Bringing Together the Body Like a Microcosm
  • 10 East European Christian Prayers against Hailstorms. Aquatic Demons and Divine Powers in Canonical and Apocryphal Context
  • 11 The Nightmare in Early Modern England
  • Part III Interactive Transformations of Popular and Official Possession Idioms and Practices
  • 12 Spirit (rwḥ) in the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 13 Domesticating the Dead. Ghosts and Spirit Possession in Late Medieval Italy
  • 14 Demonic Possession in Orthodox Imperial Russia. Official and Popular Religious Conceptions through the Prism ofan 1839-1840 Case Study
  • 15 The Healing of the Possessed in Medieval Canonization Processes
  • 16 The Sabbat of the Soul
  • 17 Ideas of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Hungarian Clerical Thought
  • Part IV Possession and Social Reality: Possession as Indigenous Historiography
  • 18 Possession, Communication and Power in Himachal Pradesh (North India)
  • 19 A Day-to-Day Family Chronicle with "Personages" in Madagascar
  • 20 Anthropological Spirits and Colonial Consciousness in Arabic-Speaking Sudan
  • 21 From Illness to Trance. The Socialization of Spirit Possession in Senegal
  • 22 On Spirit Possession and Some Parallels with Reincarnation
  • Contributors
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index
  • Geographical Index
  • Back cover

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