Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts

Herausgeber: Blyth, Caroline

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780367340773
• ISBN-10: 0367340771
• Artikelnr.: 60006986

Autorenporträt

Caroline Blyth is Senior Lecturer in Theological and Religious Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Caroline Blyth; 1 Spirit Possession in the Bible
Anne Aalbers; 2 Mental Illness and Demon Possession: Reading the New Testament
Anastasia Scrutton; 3 The Ghosts of the Past Are the Demons of the Present: Evangelical Third Wave Deliverance as a Gothic Therapeutic
Sean McCloud; 4 Ulu'isino: Divine Possession and the Legitimation of Temporal Agency in Late Pre
Christian Tonga
Andy Mills; 5 Spirit Mediumism in Shaanbei, North
Central China
Adam Yuet Chau and LIU Jianshu; 6 Keeping it in the Family: Ancestral Talkback on Tak¿
Richard Moyle; 7 Even Demons Cooperate: Imitation and Conceptual Convergence in Possession Narratives
Karen Dwyer; 8 How Demons Speak: The Voice of Demonic Possession
Kirsty Rowan; 9 Spirit Possession as a Source of Knowledge
Gregory W. Dawes