Spirit possession : multidisciplinary approaches to a worldwide phenomenon

Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: Pócs, Éva (Éd.), Zempléni, András (Éd.)
Format: Ouvrage
Langue:Anglais
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Table des matières:
  • Discerning spirit possessions: an introduction / Zempléni, András
  • Reflecting on the vocabulary of “Possession” in a South Indian context / Tarabout, Gilles
  • “Incorporation does not exist”: the Brazilian rejection of the term “possession” and why it exists nonetheless / Schmidt, Bettina E.
  • “Figures of return”: the Catholic church, the Holy spirit and Embandwa spirit possession in Western Uganda / Behrend, Heike
  • Ideas about spirit possession and anti-devil practices in the religious life of some Eastern Hungarian communities / Pócs, Éva
  • The indigeneity of spirit possession: a contribution to comparative theory / Keller, Mary L.
  • Specter, phantom, demon / Csordas, Thomas J.
  • From Loudun to Dakar, and back: possession and evil in individualistic and nonindividualistic societies / Castel, Pierre-Henri
  • Devil possession in the liturgy around the tenth and twelfth centuries : bringing together the body like a microcosm / Chave-Mahir, Florence
  • East European Christian prayers against hailstorms, aquatic demons and divine powers in canonical and apocryphal contexts / Timotin, Emanuela
  • The nightmare in early modern England / Rivière, Janine-- Spirit (RWH) in the dead sea scrolls / Fröhlich, Ida
  • Domesticating the dead: ghosts and spirit possession in late medieval Italy / Caciola, Nancy
  • Demonic possession in Orthodox imperial Russia: official and popular religious conceptions through the prism of an 1839–1840 case study / Worobec, Christine D.
  • The healing of the possessed in medieval canonization processes / Klaniczay, Gábor
  • The sabbat of the soul / Ferber, Sarah
  • Ideas of possession in Eighteenth-Century Hungarian clerical thought / Bárt, Dániel
  • Possession, communication and power in Himachal Pradesh (North India) / Berti, Daniela
  • A day-to-day family chronicle with “personages” in Madagascar / Fiéloux, Michèle et Lombard, Jacques
  • Anthropological spirits and colonial consciousness in Arabic-speaking Sudan / Boddy, Janice
  • From illness to trance: The socialization of spirit possession in Senegal / Zempléni, András
  • On spirit possession and some parallels with reincarnation / Lambek, Michael.