The dynamic cosmos : movement, paradox, and experimentation in the anthropology of spirit possession / edited by Diana Espírito Santo and Matan Shapiro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Espirito Santo, Diana, editor.

Shapiro, Matan, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Bloomsbury advances in religious studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirit possession--Cross-cultural studies.

Spirit possession.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

ix, 226 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Angels and Demons: Notes on Kinship and Exorcism at an Ethiopian Orthodox Shrine / Diego Maria Malara

2. Spirit Possessions, Racial Dispossessions: The Second Diaspora of Race in Afro-Cuban Religious Experience / Anastasios Panagiotopoulos

3. Between Possessor and Possessed: Warping Spacetime and Agency through Co-Presence / J. Brent Crosson

4. Waiting for Deities: Spirit Possession in the Middle Voice / Miho Ishii

5. The Motion-Power of the Collective, or How Spirits "Come into View" in Cuba / Diana Espirito Santo

6. (EN)Spirited Pedagogy: Learning and Simultaneity in Pentecostalism / Bruno Reinhardt

7. A Theory of Passage: Paradox and Neo-Pentecostal Expulsion of Demons in Brazil / Matan Shapiro

8. The Threshold of the Cosmos: Priestiy Scriptures and the Shamanic Wilderness in Southwest China / Katherine Swancutt

9. The Mormon Dead / Jon Bialecki

10. On the Existence of Witches (Or How Anthropology Works) / Marcio Goldman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781350298859

1350298859

OCLC:

1314345547

Publisher Number:

99992644598