Spirit possession and trance : new interdisciplinary perspectives /: new interdisciplinary perspectives. (2011 copyright 2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bettina E. Schmidt and Lucy Huskinson.
• Other Names: Schmidt, Bettina E; Huskinson, Lucy, 1976-
• Contents: Introduction / Lucy Huskinson and Bettina E. Schmist -- Animism rather than shamanism : new approaches to what shamans do (for other animists) / Graham Harvey -- Possession and self-possession : towards an integrated mind-body perspective / Geoffrey Samuel -- Spirit possession, seduction, and collective consciousness / Louise Child -- Analytical psychology and spirit possession : towards a non-pathological diagnosis of spirit possession / Lucy Huskinson -- Possessed women in the African diaspora : gender difference in spirit possession rituals / Bettina E. Schmist -- Somali Saar in the era of social and religious change / Marja Tiilikainen -- Taking possession of Santo Daime : the growth of umbanda within a Brazilian new religion / Andrew Dawson -- Spirit attacks in Northern Namibia : interpreting a new phenomenon in an African Lutheran context / Kim Groop -- Divine possession and divination in the Graeco-Roman world : the evidence from Iamblichus's On the mysteries / Crystal Addey -- Waking the entranced : reassessing spiritualist mediumship through a comparison of spiritualist and shamanic spirit possession practices / David Gordon Wilson -- To perform possession and to be possessed in performance : the actor, the medium and an 'other' / Sarah Goldingay -- On the transformation of the spirit possession film : towards rouch as 'emergent method' / Saër Maty Bâ.
• Publisher Details: London : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (258 pages)
• Subjects: 204/.2; Christian spirituality & religious experience; Religion -- Spirituality; Spirituality & religious experience; Spirit possession; Trance; Altered states of consciousness
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441191359; 1441191356
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.