Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Blyth, Caroline

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts explores the phenomenon of spirit possession, focusing on the religious and cultural functions it serves as a means of communication.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000290110
• Artikelnr.: 60374279

Autorenporträt

Caroline Blyth is Senior Lecturer in Theological and Religious Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Caroline Blyth; 1 Spirit Possession in the Bible
Anne Aalbers; 2 Mental Illness and Demon Possession: Reading the New Testament
Anastasia Scrutton; 3 The Ghosts of the Past Are the Demons of the Present: Evangelical Third Wave Deliverance as a Gothic Therapeutic
Sean McCloud; 4 Ulu'isino: Divine Possession and the Legitimation of Temporal Agency in Late Pre
Christian Tonga
Andy Mills; 5 Spirit Mediumism in Shaanbei, North
Central China
Adam Yuet Chau and LIU Jianshu; 6 Keeping it in the Family: Ancestral Talkback on Tak¿
Richard Moyle; 7 Even Demons Cooperate: Imitation and Conceptual Convergence in Possession Narratives
Karen Dwyer; 8 How Demons Speak: The Voice of Demonic Possession
Kirsty Rowan; 9 Spirit Possession as a Source of Knowledge
Gregory W. Dawes