Spirit possession and trance: new interdisciplinary perspectives

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 collec...

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Contributors: Schmidt, Bettina E. (Other) ; Huskinson, Lucy 1976- (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London New York Continuum c2010
In:Year: 2010
Series/Journal:Continuum advances in religious studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Possession / Spirits / Religious psychology
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Spirit Possession
B Spirits
B Trance
B Consciousness expansion
B Altered states of consciousness
B Religious psychology
B Spirit possession
B Spiritual possession cult
B Possession
B Spiritism
B Electronic books
B Conference program
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1472549368
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5040/9781472549365