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Spirit Possession

Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon
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558 Seiten
Englisch
Central European University Presserschienen am30.06.2022
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. With the aim of reformulating the comparative anthropology of spirit possession, the editors have opened corridors between previously separate areas of research. Together, anthropologists and historians working on several historical periods and in different European, African, South American, and Asian cultural areas attempt to redefine the very concept of possession, freeing it from the Western notion of the self and more clearly delineating it from related matters such as witchcraft, devotion, or mysticism. The book also provides an overview of new research directions, including novel methods of participant observation and approaches to spirit possession as indigenous historiographymehr
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KlappentextPossession, 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. With the aim of reformulating the comparative anthropology of spirit possession, the editors have opened corridors between previously separate areas of research. Together, anthropologists and historians working on several historical periods and in different European, African, South American, and Asian cultural areas attempt to redefine the very concept of possession, freeing it from the Western notion of the self and more clearly delineating it from related matters such as witchcraft, devotion, or mysticism. The book also provides an overview of new research directions, including novel methods of participant observation and approaches to spirit possession as indigenous historiography
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-963-386-413-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum30.06.2022
Seiten558 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 157 mm, Höhe 235 mm, Dicke 34 mm
Gewicht951 g
Artikel-Nr.58020286

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of IllustrationsForewordÉva Pócs and András ZempléniDiscerning Spirit Possessions: An IntroductionAndrás ZempléniPART I. CURRENT CONSTELLATION OF SPIRIT POSSESSION CONCEPTSReflecting on the Vocabulary of Possession in a South Indian ContextGilles Tarabout Incorporation Does Not Exist : The Brazilian Rejection of the Term Possession and Why It Exists NonethelessBettina E. Schmidt Figures of Return : The Catholic Church, the Holy Spirit and Embandwa Spirit Possession in Western UgandaHeike BehrendIdeas about Spirit Possession and Anti-Devil Practices in the Religious Life of Some Eastern Hungarian CommunitiesÉva PócsThe Indigeneity of Spirit Possession: A Contribution to Comparative TheoryMary L. KellerPART II. TRANSITIONS AND THRESHOLDS OF CHANGE IN POSSESSION CONCEPTS AND PRACTICESSpecter, Phantom, DemonThomas J. CsordasFrom Loudun to Dakar, and Back: Possession and Evil in Individualistic and Nonindividualistic SocietiesPierre-Henri CastelDevil Possession in the Liturgy around the Tenth and Twelfth CenturiesFlorence Chave-MahirEast European Christian Prayers against Hailstorms, Aquatic Demons and Divine Powers in Canonical and Apocryphal ContextsEmanuela TimotinThe Nightmare in Early Modern EnglandJanine RivièrePART III. INTERACTIVE TRANSFORMATIONS OF POPULAR AND OFFICAL POSSESSION IDIOMS AND PRACTICESSpirit (rwḥ) in the Dead Sea ScrollsIda FröhlichDomesticating the Dead: Ghosts and Spirit Possession in Late Medieval ItalyNancy CaciolaDemonic Possession in Orthodox Imperial Russia: Official and Popular Religious Conceptions through the Prism of an 1839-1840 Case StudyChristine D. WorobecThe Healing of the Possessed in Medieval Canonization ProcessesGábor KlaniczayThe Sabbat of the SoulSarah FerberIdeas of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Hungarian Clerical ThoughtDániel BárthPART IV. POSSESSION AND SOCIAL REALITY: POSSESSION AS INDIGENOUS HISTIOGRAPHYPossession, Communication and Power in Himachal Pradesh (North India)Daniela BertiA Day-to-Day Family Chronicle with  Personages in MadagascarMichèle Fiéloux and Jacques LombardAnthropological Spirits and Colonial Consciousness in Arabic-Speaking SudanJanice BoddyFrom Illness to Trance: The Socialization of Spirit Possession in SenegalAndrás ZempléniOn Spirit Possession and Some Parallels with ReincarnationMichael LambekContributorsName IndexSubject IndexGeographical Indexmehr

Autor

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.
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