1st Edition
Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts
Introduction
Caroline Blyth
1 Spirit Possession in the Bible
Anne Aalbers
2 Mental Illness and Demon Possession: Reading the New Testament
Anastasia Scrutton
3 The Ghosts of the Past Are the Demons of the Present: Evangelical Third Wave Deliverance as a Gothic Therapeutic
Sean McCloud
4 Ulu‘isino: Divine Possession and the Legitimation of Temporal Agency in Late Pre-Christian Tonga
Andy Mills
5 Spirit Mediumism in Shaanbei, North-Central China
Adam Yuet Chau and LIU Jianshu
6 Keeping it in the Family: Ancestral Talkback on Takū
Richard Moyle
7 Even Demons Cooperate: Imitation and Conceptual Convergence in Possession Narratives
Karen Dwyer
8 How Demons Speak: The Voice of Demonic Possession
Kirsty Rowan
9 Spirit Possession as a Source of Knowledge
Gregory W. Dawes
Biography
Caroline Blyth is Senior Lecturer in Theological and Religious Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
