Spirit Possession

Spirit Possession

Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon

Zempleni, Andras; Pocs, Eva

Central European University Press

06/2022

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Inglês

9789633864135

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Foreword

Eva Pocs and Andras Zempleni


Discerning Spirit Possessions: An Introduction

Andras Zempleni


PART I. CURRENT CONSTELLATION OF SPIRIT POSSESSION CONCEPTS


Reflecting on the Vocabulary of "Possession" in a South Indian Context

Gilles Tarabout


"Incorporation Does Not Exist": The Brazilian Rejection of the Term "Possession" and Why It Exists Nonetheless

Bettina E. Schmidt


"Figures of Return": The Catholic Church, the Holy Spirit and Embandwa Spirit Possession in Western Uganda

Heike Behrend


Ideas about Spirit Possession and Anti-Devil Practices in the Religious Life of Some Eastern Hungarian Communities

Eva Pocs


The Indigeneity of Spirit Possession: A Contribution to Comparative Theory

Mary L. Keller


PART II. TRANSITIONS AND THRESHOLDS OF CHANGE IN POSSESSION CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES


Specter, Phantom, Demon

Thomas J. Csordas


From Loudun to Dakar, and Back: Possession and Evil in Individualistic and Nonindividualistic Societies

Pierre-Henri Castel


Devil Possession in the Liturgy around the Tenth and Twelfth Centuries

Florence Chave-Mahir


East European Christian Prayers against Hailstorms, Aquatic Demons and Divine Powers in Canonical and Apocryphal Contexts

Emanuela Timotin


The Nightmare in Early Modern England

Janine Riviere


PART III. INTERACTIVE TRANSFORMATIONS OF POPULAR AND OFFICAL POSSESSION IDIOMS AND PRACTICES


Spirit (rw?) in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Ida Froehlich


Domesticating the Dead: Ghosts and Spirit Possession in Late Medieval Italy

Nancy Caciola


Demonic Possession in Orthodox Imperial Russia: Official and Popular Religious Conceptions through the Prism of an 1839-1840 Case Study

Christine D. Worobec


The Healing of the Possessed in Medieval Canonization Processes

Gabor Klaniczay


The Sabbat of the Soul


Sarah Ferber


Ideas of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Hungarian Clerical Thought

Daniel Barth


PART IV. POSSESSION AND SOCIAL REALITY: POSSESSION AS INDIGENOUS HISTIOGRAPHY


?Possession, Communication and Power in Himachal Pradesh (North India)

Daniela Berti


A Day-to-Day Family Chronicle with "Personages" in Madagascar

Michele Fieloux and Jacques Lombard


Anthropological Spirits and Colonial Consciousness in Arabic-Speaking Sudan

Janice Boddy


From Illness to Trance: The Socialization of Spirit Possession in Senegal

Andras Zempleni


On Spirit Possession and Some Parallels with Reincarnation

Michael Lambek


Contributors

Name Index

Subject Index

Geographical Index
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Exorcism, body & soul, rites, demons, trance, medium, participant observation