: Possession and invocation in Contemporary Religion
\ edited by Andrew Dawson.
; New York
: I.B. Tauris
, 2011.
viii, 230 p.
:ill.
;24 cm.
Library of modern religion
; 15
Index
Bibliography
Introduction: possession and invocation in contemporary context / Andrew Dawson -- I: Possessing the present: local negotiations of transnational processes -- Local spirits/multicultural rituals: the dynamics of place and identity in Vietnamese-American spirit possession rituals / Karen Fjelstad and Nguyen Thi Hien -- Embodied spirit(s) and charismatic power among Congolese migrants in London / David Garbin -- Spirits and slaves in Central Sudan / Susan M. Kenyon -- Gendered dynamics of the divine: trance and possession practices in diaspora Hindu sites in East London / Ann R. David -- II: Taking possession of the spirit: relational selves and supernatural others -- Process personhood and possession in Cuban spiritism / Diana Espirito Santo -- Embodiment and the metaphysics of virgin birth in South India: a case study / Gillian Goslinga -- Ta(l)king possession: exchanging words and worlds among charismatic Christians / Simon Coleman -- III: Possession and invocation in late-modern contexts -- Spirit, self and society in the Brazilian new religion of Santo Daime / Andrew Dawson -- Imagining spirit possession: mixing traditions and current trends in the Japanese Manga Shaman King / Birgit Staemmler -- The ontology of good and evil: spirit possession in contemporary witchcraft and paganism / Douglas Ezzy.