Summoning the spirits
Subtitle: possession and invocation in contemporary religion
By: edited by Andrew Dawson
Series: Library of modern religion -- 15; Library of modern religion -- 15.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781848851627; 9781848851610
Subjects: Exorcism; Bezetenheid; Demoniac possession; Spirit possession
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-221) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: possession and invocation in contemporary context / Andrew Dawson; title: I: Possessing the present: local negotiations of transnational processes; title: Local spirits/multicultural rituals: the dynamics of place and identity in Vietnamese-American spirit possession rituals / Karen Fjelstad and Nguyen Thi Hien; title: Embodied spirit(s) and charismatic power among Congolese migrants in London / David Garbin; title: Spirits and slaves in Central Sudan / Susan M. Kenyon; title: Gendered dynamics of the divine: trance and possession practices in diaspora Hindu sites in East London / Ann R. David; title: II: Taking possession of the spirit: relational selves and supernatural others; title: Process personhood and possession in Cuban spiritism / Diana Espirito Santo; title: Embodiment and the metaphysics of virgin birth in South India: a case study / Gillian Goslinga; title: Ta(l)king possession: exchanging words and worlds among charismatic Christians / Simon Coleman; title: III: Possession and invocation in late-modern contexts; title: Spirit, self and society in the Brazilian new religion of Santo Daime / Andrew Dawson; title: Imagining spirit possession: mixing traditions and current trends in the Japanese Manga Shaman King / Birgit Staemmler; title: The ontology of good and evil: spirit possession in contemporary witchcraft and paganism / Douglas Ezzy.