Mimetic failure: Politics, prayer and possession

In the micro-politics of community and neighborhood practice, formal Muslim prayer (namaz) frequently becomes juxtaposed to trance, possession or other dissociative states of consciousness. In the latter states, a subject becomes overwhelmed by an encounter with otherness and reacts on the basis of...

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Main Author: Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis [2016]
In: Journal of religious and political practice
Year: 2016, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 58-74
Further subjects:B Mimesis
B Possession
B Alterity
B Hindus
B Muslim
B Prayer
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