1st Edition
Spirit Possession Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon
556 Pages
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Central European University Press
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... Read more
List of Illustrations, Foreword, Discerning Spirit Possessions: An Introduction, PART I. CURRENT CONSTELLATION OF SPIRIT POSSESSION CONCEPTS, PART II. TRANSITIONS AND THRESHOLDS OF CHANGE IN POSSESSION CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES, PART III. INTERACTIVE TRANSFORMATIONS OF POPULAR AND OFFICAL POSSESSION IDIOMS AND PRACTICES, PART IV. POSSESSION AND SOCIAL REALITY: POSSESSION AS INDIGENOUS HISTIOGRAPHY, Contributors, Name Index, Subject Index, Geographical Index
Biography
Éva Pócs is Professor emeritus at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs, Hungary.
András Zempléni is Honorary Research Director at CNRS, France, University of Paris X - Nanterre.
