Spirit possession and trance
Subtitle: new interdisciplinary perspectives
By: edited by Bettina Schmidt and Lucy Huskinson.
Contributors: Schmidt, Bettina E.; Huskinson, Lucy, 1976-
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780826435743
Subjects: Spirit possession; Trance; Altered states of consciousness
Description: "Spirit possession is a phenomenon that often elicits a response of fear, particular in those who are ignorant of its meaning and role within its particular religious and cultural traditions. Possession by divine beings (such as spirits or gods) is, however, a key practice in religions worldwide. It is therefore important to gain an understanding of this practice in its cultural context before trying to develop a wider theory about it. This fascinating book contains several case studies that present new interpretations of spirit possession worldwide. The authors show the diversity of possible interpretations and methodological approaches that provide a new insight into the understanding of possession and trance."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lucy Huskinson and Bettina E. Schmist; title: Animism rather than shamanism : new approaches to what shamans do (for other animists) / Graham Harvey; title: Possession and self-possession : towards an integrated mind-body perspective / Geoffrey Samuel; title: Spirit possession, seduction, and collective consciousness / Louise Child; title: Analytical psychology and spirit possession : towards a non-pathological diagnosis of spirit possession / Lucy Huskinson; title: Possessed women in the African diaspora : gender difference in spirit possession rituals / Bettina E. Schmist; title: Somali Aaar in the era of social and religious change / Marja Tiilikainen; title: Taking possession of Santo Daime : the growth of umbada within a Brazilian new religion / Andrew Dawson; title: Spirit attacks in Northern Namibia : interpreting a new phenomenon in an African Lutheran context / Kim Groop; title: Divine possession and divination in the Graeco-Roman world : the evidence from Iamblichus's on the mysteries / Crystal Addey; title: Waking the entranced : reassessing spiritualist mediumship through a comparison of spiritualist and shamanic spirit possession practices / David Gordon Wilson; title: To perform possession and to be possessed in performance : the actor, the medium and an other / Sarah Goldingay; title: On the transformation of the spirit possession film : towards rouch as emergent method / Sair Maty.