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Developing the dead : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo / Diana Espírito Santo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Espirito Santo, Diana, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Santeria--Cuba.
- Santeria.
- Black people--Cuba--Religion.
- Black people.
- Spiritualism--Cuba.
- Spiritualism.
- Cuba--Religion--African influences.
- Cuba.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is the first sustained, deep ethnographic study of Espiritismo (Spiritism) in Cuba. In it, Espirito Santo examines in-depth the daily rhythms of how individual practitioners' experiences and conceptions of selfhood are shaped.
- Contents:
- Spirits at the crossroads of belief and pragmatism
- Spiritism and the place of the dead in Afro-Cuban religion
- On good mediumship: science, revolution, and legitimacy
- Encounter, selfhood, and multiplicity
- Development as cosmogony: ritual and materialization
- Epilogue: biographical intersections.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-5085-5
- OCLC:
- 910513408
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