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Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship : Ethnographic Inquiries into New Communities of Practice and Enskilment / edited by Marcello Múscari, Ehler Voss, Martin Zillinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Beiträge zur Praxeologie / Contributions to Praxeology, 2946-0166
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (VI, 195 p. 8 illus., 7 illus. in color.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2026.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: J.B. Metzler, 2026.
- Summary:
- This open access volume presents ethnographic inquiries into new communities of practice and enskilment that revolve around techniques of mediumship, spirit possession, and trance rituals in a globally interconnected world. The increased mobility of people, things, signs, and symbols that shape and reshape trance practices and spiritual experiences has significantly widened their scope and outreach. Circulating body techniques, symbols, and artifacts play a major role in the re-organization of spirituality and contribute to the emergence of transnational “spirited publics”. .
- Contents:
- 1. Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship: New Communities of Practice and Enskilment
- 2. Ethnographic Incorporation: Research, Mediunity, and (Re-) flexible (-ive) Ontology
- 3. Guias and orixás in a German Umbanda: Ritual Atmosphere, Intercorporeality, and Interaffectivity in the Making of Spiritual Agency
- 4. Spirit Release Therapy as a Contemporary Healing Practice
- 5. Mediating the Spirit: Machines, Protocols, and Policies for the Mediation of Spirituality in the Medical Field
- 6. Scales of Materiality: Emergence and the Exceeding of Technology in Paranormal Chile
- 7. The Prophetic Skill: Learning to Discern and De-scale in the Angolan Tokoist Church
- 8. The Mediumistic Body: Transnational Ways of Knowing the Spirits in the Vale do Amanhecer
- 9. Enskilment as Embodied Spirituality: From Possession to Precision in the Performative Settings of two Brazilian Religions
- 10. The Romanticism of the Oyá: Feelings, Bodies, Memories, and the Multiple Space-Times of the Medium
- 11. Mediumship as Glocalized Phenomena: Reflections on a Journey into the Study of Mediumship in Brazil.
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