War Magic (eBook, ePUB)

Religion, Sorcery, and Performance
Redaktion: Farrer, Douglas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This compelling volume explores how war magic and warrior religion unleash the power of the gods, demons, ghosts, and the dead. Documenting war magic and warrior religion as they are performed in diverse cultures and across historical time periods, this volume foregrounds embodiment, practice, and performance in anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion. The authors go beyond what magic 'represents' to consider what magic does. From Chinese exorcists, Javanese spirit siblings, and black magic in Sumatra to Tamil Tiger suicide bombers, Chamorro spiritual re-enchantment, tantric Buddhist war magic, and Yanomami dark shamans, religion and magic are re-evaluated not just from the practitioner's perspective but through the victim's lived experience. These original investigations reveal a nuanced approach to understanding social action, innovation, and the revitalization of tradition in colonial and post-colonial societies undergoing rapid social transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785333309
• Artikelnr.: 56797157

Autorenporträt

Douglas Farrer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Guam. He is the author of Shadows of the Prophet: Martial Arts and Sufi Mysticism (Springer), and co-author of Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge: Asian Traditions in a Transnational World (SUNY).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction: War Magic: Religion, Sorcery, and Performance
D. S. Farrer
Chapter 1. Tangki War Magic: Spirit Warfare in Singapore
Margaret Chan
Chapter 2. Javanese Ritual Initiation: Invulnerability, Authority, and
Spiritual Improvement
Jean-Marc de Grave
Chapter 3. Discourse of Decline: Sumatran Perspectives on Black Magic
J. David Neidel
Chapter 4. Tamil Tiger Ritual, War, and Mystical Empowerment
Michael Roberts
Chapter 5. Shamanic Battleground in Venezuela
Zeljko Jokic
Chapter 6. Chants of Re-enchantment: Chamorro Spiritual Resistance to
Colonial Domination
D. S. Farrer and James D. Sellmann
Chapter 7. War Magic and Just War in Indian Tantric Buddhism
Iain Sinclair
Index