Ideas of possession: interdisciplinary and transcultural perspectives
"The characteristics of possession are numerous and vary between different socio-cultural and historical contexts. Different ideas of possession can be observed within different cultural and social contexts both past and present. This makes defining possession all the more difficult. Various ap...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Possession
/ Demon
/ Interculturality
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion AX Inter-religious relations |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Spirit Possession |
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| Summary: | "The characteristics of possession are numerous and vary between different socio-cultural and historical contexts. Different ideas of possession can be observed within different cultural and social contexts both past and present. This makes defining possession all the more difficult. Various approaches to "ideas of possession" in different academic disciplines and in different cultural contexts allow the discourse(s) to benefit from insights that would otherwise remain confined to the society under discussion or the field that determines the method of study. The introduction presents an overview of recent interdisciplinary research on possession and scholarly attempts at a working definition, followed by a brief outline of the individual case studies in this volume"-- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben |
| Physical Description: | xv, 439 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-767992-0 |
