Broschiertes Buch

War Magic

Religion, Sorcery, and Performance

Herausgeber: Farrer, Douglas

Beschreibung

Investigates spiritual warfare in religion, magic, sorcery and shamanism. Reveals war magic and warrior religion in contemporary and historical circumstances. Shows the broad, international appeal of symbolic and ritual violence, in the east and west. Research into embodied performance provides keys to phenomenological insight.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 273g
• ISBN-13: 9781785333293
• ISBN-10: 1785333291
• Artikelnr.: 45232045