Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts
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Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts

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Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts

About this book

Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts explores the phenomenon of spirit possession, focusing on the religious and cultural functions it serves as a means of communication.

Drawing on the multidisciplinary expertise of philosophers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, and scholars of religion and the Bible, the volume investigates the ways that spirit possession narratives, events, and rituals are often interwoven around communicative acts, both between spiritual and earthly realms and between members of a community.

This book offers fresh insight into the enduring cultural and religious significance of spirit possession. It will be an important resource for scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, including religion, anthropology, history, linguistics, and philosophy.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780367340773
eBook ISBN
9781000290110
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Comparative Religion
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. Preface
  9. List of contributors
  10. Spirit possession and communication: introduction
  11. 1 Spirit possession in the Bible
  12. 2 Mental illness and demon possession: reading the New Testament
  13. 3 The ghosts of the past are the demons of the present: Evangelical Third Wave deliverance as a gothic therapeutic
  14. 4 Ulu‘isino: divine possession and the legitimation of temporal agency in late pre-Christian Tonga
  15. 5 Spirit mediumism in Shaanbei, north-central China
  16. 6 Keeping it in the family: ancestral talkback on Takū
  17. 7 Even demons cooperate: imitation and conceptual convergence in possession narratives
  18. 8 How demons speak: the voice of demonic possession
  19. 9 Spirit possession as a source of knowledge
  20. Index of authors