Tags
Language
Tags
<<
December 2024
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31 1 2 3 4
  1. Home
  2. eBooks & eLearning
  3. Spirit Possession: Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon

Spirit Possession: Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon

Posted By: roxul
Date: 4 Sep 2023 13:02:25
Spirit Possession: Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon

Éva Pócs, "Spirit Possession: Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon"
English | ISBN: 9633864135 | 2022 | 556 pages | PDF | 7 MB

Possession, a seemingly irrational phenomenon, has posed challenges to generations of scholars rooted in Western notions of body-soul dualism, self and personhood, and a whole set of presuppositions inherited from Christian models of possession that was "good" or "bad." The authors of the essays in this book present a new and more promising approach. They conceive spirit possession as a form of communication, of expressivity, of culturally defined behavior that should be understood in the context of local, vernacular theories and empiric reflections.
Read more
UPWARDS