Emma Cohen

The Mind Possessed

The Cognition of Spirit Possession in an Afro-Brazilian Religious Tradition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780195323351
• ISBN-10: 0195323351
• Artikelnr.: 26172943

Autorenporträt

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