The burning saints
Subtitle: cognition and culture in the fire-walking rituals of the Anastenaria
By: Dimitris Xygalatas
Series: Religion, cognition and culture
Publisher: Equinox Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781845539764
Subjects: Religious life and customs; Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados; Anastenaria; Fire walking; Rites and ceremonies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tradition in the making; title: Ethnographic setting; title: Fire-walking in Agia Eleni; title: Knowledge and revelation among the Anastenaria; title: Ritual and cognition; title: Costly rituals; title: Arousal, emotion, and motivation; title: Physiology of high arousal rituals; title: Putting it all together.