Diana Espírito Santo

Broschiertes Buch

Developing the Dead

Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo

Beschreibung

Based on extensive fieldwork among espiritistas and their patrons in Havana, this book makes the surprising claim that Spiritist practices are fundamentally a project of developing the self.

Autor

Diana Espírito Santo is assistant professor in social anthropology at the Institute of Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is coeditor of The Social Life of Spirits and Making Spirits: Materiality and Transcendence in Contemporary Religions

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780813080383
• ISBN-10: 081308038X
• Artikelnr.: 72773364