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Developing the Dead : Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo /

This book is the first sustained, deep ethnographic study of Espiritismo (Spiritism) in Cuba. In it, Espirito Santo examines in-depth the daily rhythms of how individual practitioners' experiences and conceptions of selfhood are shaped.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Espirito Santo, Diana (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Spirits at the crossroads of belief and pragmatism
  • Spiritism and the place of the dead in Afro-Cuban religion
  • On good mediumship: science, revolution, and legitimacy
  • Encounter, selfhood, and multiplicity
  • Development as cosmogony: ritual and materialization
  • Epilogue: biographical intersections.