Spirit Possession: Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon
Éva Pócs, "Spirit Possession: Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon"
English | ISBN: 9633864135 | 2022 | 556 pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 9633864135 | 2022 | 556 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Possession, a seemingly irrational phenomenon, has posed challenges to generations of scholars rooted in Western notions of body-soul dualism, self and personhood, and a whole set of presuppositions inherited from Christian models of possession that was "good" or "bad." The authors of the essays in this book present a new and more promising approach. They conceive spirit possession as a form of communication, of expressivity, of culturally defined behavior that should be understood in the context of local, vernacular theories and empiric reflections.
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