This timely book presents new lines of enquiry for the cognitive science of religion (a rapidly growing field of interdisciplinary scholarship) and challenges the theoretical frameworks within which spirit possession practices have traditionally been understood.
This timely book presents new lines of enquiry for the cognitive science of religion (a rapidly growing field of interdisciplinary scholarship) and challenges the theoretical frameworks within which spirit possession practices have traditionally been understood.
Emma Cohen is a Researcher at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford
Inhaltsangabe
Note on Translated Sources 1. Introducing Possession 2. Historical and Ethnographic Setting 3. The Research Community 4. Describing, Interpreting, and Explaining Spirit Possession 5. Medicalist, Physiological, and Sociological Explanations 6. Spirits as Concepts 7. Observing Possession 8. The Social Relevance of Spirits 9. Explaining Distributions of Spirit Concepts and Spirit Possession Appendix Glossary Notes References Index
Note on Translated Sources 1. Introducing Possession 2. Historical and Ethnographic Setting 3. The Research Community 4. Describing, Interpreting, and Explaining Spirit Possession 5. Medicalist, Physiological, and Sociological Explanations 6. Spirits as Concepts 7. Observing Possession 8. The Social Relevance of Spirits 9. Explaining Distributions of Spirit Concepts and Spirit Possession Appendix Glossary Notes References Index
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