Indigenous Religions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

This volume brings together a collection of articles that conceptually focus on dynamic engagements with spirits and other-world beings, focusing on the concepts of spirits, possession and witchery.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-30
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:807 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:341
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138338555

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction to Volume III Part 1: Spirits 1. “This is My Profession: Changes in African Ritual Consciousness over Thirty-One Years 2. The Crystal Forest: notes on the Ontology of Amazonian Spirits 3. Spirit Mediumship in Brazil: The Controversy about Semi-Conscious Mediums 4. Spirit Possession in a New Religious Context: The umbandization of Santo Daime Part 2: Mediumship, possession and other relations 5. No past, no present: A critical-Nayaka perspective on cultural remembering 6. The State Oracle of Tibet, spirit possession, and shamanism 7. Definitive evidence, from Cuban gods 8. Assault Sorcery 9. Transdimensional relations: On human-spirit interaction in the Amazon 10. The vanishing hitchhiker in Shillong: Khasi belief narratives and violence against women Part 3: Witchery 11. Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony: Witchery and sacrifice of self 12. Healing And The human condition: Scenes from the present moment in Navajoland 13. Rethinking religion, magic and witchcraft in South Africa: From colonial coherence to postcolonial conundrum 14. Oracles, trauma, and the limits of contextualization: Naming the witch in contemporary Kenya 15. Natural and Supernatural: Intersections between the spiritual and natural worlds in African witchcraft and healing with reference to southern Africa 16. Muthi, medicine and witchcraft: Regulating ‘African science’ in post-apartheid South Africa? 17. Karanga traditional medicine and healing