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Spirit possession and trance : new interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Bettina E. Schmidt and Lucy Huskinson.

Other author/creatorSchmidt, Bettina E.
Other author/creatorHuskinson, Lucy, 1976-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Continuum,
Descriptionviii, 246 p. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Continuum advances in religious studies
Continuum advances in religious studies. ^A781981
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009035017
ISBN9780826435743 (HB)
ISBN0826435742 (HB)
ISBN9781441108289 (PB)

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