Автор: Stoller, Paul Название: Embodying Colonial Memories ISBN: 0415908779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415908771 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7195.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Ongoing debates about the “return of religion” have paid little attention to the orgiastic and enthusiastic qualities of religiosity, despite a significant increase in the use of techniques of trance and possession around the globe. Likewise, research on religion and media has neglected the fact that historically the rise of mediumship and spirit possession was closely linked to the development of new media of communication. This innovative volume brings together a wide range of ethnographic studies on local spiritual and media practices. Recognizing that processes of globalization are shaped by mass mediation, the volume raises questions such as: How are media like photography, cinema, video, the telephone, or television integrated in seances and healing rituals? How do spirit mediums connect with these media? Why are certain technical media shunned in these contexts?
Описание: Also includes Aleksey Remizov`s modernist re-workings of the two tales, The Demoniacs.
Автор: Dendle, Peter Название: Demon possession in anglo-saxon england ISBN: 1580441696 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580441698 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 4646.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Concepts of demon possession and exorcism provided a outlet for expressing the psychological, biological, and sociopolitical dysfunctions of society. A reexamination of the available sources describing the possessed and a study of the currently recognized medical and psychiatric conditions that may be relevant to and resemble medieval possession.
Автор: Wood, Matthew Название: Possession, Power and the New Age ISBN: 075463339X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754633396 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows how medieval people decided whom to venerate as a saint infused with the spirit of God and whom to avoid as a demoniac possessed of an unclean spirit. This process of discrimination, known as the discernment of spirits, was central to the religious culture of Western Europe between 1200 and 1500.
Since the outward manifestations of benign and malign possession were indistinguishable, a highly ambiguous set of bodily features and behaviors were carefully scrutinized by observers. Attempts to make decisions about individuals who exhibited supernatural powers were complicated by the fact that the most intense exemplars of lay spirituality were women, and the "fragile sex" was deemed especially vulnerable to the snares of the devil. Assessments of women's spirit possessions often oscillated between divine and demonic interpretations. Ultimately, although a few late medieval women visionaries achieved the prestige of canonization, many more were accused of possession by demons. Caciola analyzes a broad array of sources from saints' lives to medical treatises, exorcists' manuals to miracle accounts, to find that observers came to rely on the discernment of bodies rather than seeking to distinguish between divine and demonic possession in purely spiritual terms.
Описание: Tells a story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years of Queen Elizabeth`s reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic possessions and exorcisms, this book highlights the existence of controversies in print in the late Elizabethan period of the kind that would one day lead to civil war.
Описание: This book discusses the origins of wealth inequality and explains how societies can reform to avoid the catastrophe of inequality-induced social breakdown. It develops a theoretical and practical understanding of the principles behind the concept of ownership and of property, complete with historical examples.
Автор: Lim, Alvin Eng Hui Название: Digital Spirits in Religion and Media ISBN: 0367586630 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367586638 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7501.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This edited volume applies the analytic notions of paradox and play to the ethnographic manifestation of spirits, angels, and demons in different locations around the world. The 10 case studies conceptualize the co-presence of humans and entities with terms that do not exclude spiritual reasoning on the one hand, and social explanations on the other. Through in-depth descriptions of localized possession cosmologies, the different chapters collectively propose path-breaking methodological directions in this field, which incorporate ethnographic theories of simultaneity into anthropological theories of religion, kinship, and ritual.
Framed by an introduction written by the editors and an afterword by Michael Lambek, a leading authority in possessions studies, the volume contains cutting edge analyses that will provide readers with new tools to evaluate previously unstudied aspects of spirit possession; all of which stem from the fantastic forms of human movement that accompany the phenomenality of paradoxes in mundane reality.
Описание: Originally published in 1978 Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America is a diverse and comprehensive bibliography on published works containing ethnographic data on spirit possession and spirit mediumship in North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in some Afro-American communities.
Описание: Originally published in 1978 Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America is a diverse and comprehensive bibliography on published works containing ethnographic data on spirit possession and spirit mediumship in North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in some Afro-American communities.
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