Research Catalog

Title

Spirit possession and trance : new interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Bettina E. Schmidt and Lucy Huskinson.

Publication

London ; New York : Continuum, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schmidt, Bettina E.
• Huskinson, Lucy, 1976-

Description

viii, 246 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Continuum advances in religious studies

Uniform Title

Continuum advances in religious studies.

Subjects

• Altered states of consciousness
• Trance
• Spirit possession

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Lucy Huskinson and Bettina E. Schmist -- Animism rather than shamanism : new approaches to what shamans do (for other animists) / Graham Harvey -- Possession and self-possession : towards an integrated mind-body perspective / Geoffrey Samuel -- Spirit possession, seduction, and collective consciousness / Louise Child -- Analytical psychology and spirit possession : towards a non-pathological diagnosis of spirit possession / Lucy Huskinson -- Possessed women in the African diaspora : gender difference in spirit possession rituals / Bettina E. Schmist -- Somali Saar in the era of social and religious change / Marja Tiilikainen -- Taking possession of Santo Daime : the growth of umbanda within a Brazilian new religion / Andrew Dawson -- Spirit attacks in Northern Namibia : interpreting a new phenomenon in an African Lutheran context / Kim Groop -- Divine possession and divination in the Graeco-Roman world : the evidence from Iamblichus's On the mysteries / Crystal Addey -- Waking the entranced : reassessing spiritualist mediumship through a comparison of spiritualist and shamanic spirit possession practices / David Gordon Wilson -- To perform possession and to be possessed in performance : the actor, the medium and an 'other' / Sarah Goldingay -- On the transformation of the spirit possession film : towards rouch as 'emergent method' / Saër Maty Bâ.

ISBN

• 9780826435743 (HB)
• 0826435742 (HB)

LCCN

• 2009035017
• 40017966673

OCLC

• ocn432983435
• 432983435
• SCSB-5527906

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries