دانلود کتاب Spirit Possession: Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon

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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword • Éva Pócs and András Zempléni
1 Discerning Spirit Possessions: An Introduction • András Zempléni
Part I: Current Constellations of Spirit Possession Concepts
2 Reflecting on the Vocabulary of “Possession” in a South Indian Context • Gilles Tarabout
3 “Incorporation Does Not Exist”: The Brazilian Rejection of the Term “Possession” and Why It Exists Nonetheless • Bettina E. Schmidt
4 “Figures of Return”: The Catholic Church, the Holy Spirit and Embandwa Spirit Possession in Western Uganda • Heike Behrend
5 Ideas about Spirit Possession and Anti-Devil Practices in the Religious Life of Some Eastern Hungarian Communities • Éva Pócs
6 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
7 Specter, Phantom, Demon • Thomas J. Csordas
8 From Loudun to Dakar, and Back: Possession and Evil in Individualistic and Nonindividualistic Societies • Pierre-Henri Castel
9 Devil Possession in the Liturgy around the Tenth and Twelfth Centuries: Bringing Together the Body Like a Microcosm • Florence Chave-Mahir
10 East European Christian Prayers against Hailstorms: Aquatic Demons and Divine Powers in Canonical and Apocryphal Contexts • Emanuela Timotin
11 The Nightmare in Early Modern England • Janine Rivière
Part III: Interactive Transformations of Popular and Official Possession Idioms and Practices
12 Spirit (rwḥ) in the Dead Sea Scrolls • Ida Fröhlich
13 Domesticating the Dead: Ghosts and Spirit Possession in Late Medieval Italy • Nancy Caciola
14 Demonic Possession in Orthodox Imperial Russia: Official and Popular Religious Conceptions through the Prism of an 1839–1840 Case Study • Christine D. Worobec
15 The Healing of the Possessed in Medieval Canonization Processes • Gábor Klaniczay
16 The Sabbat of the Soul • Sarah Ferber
17 Ideas of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Hungarian Clerical Thought • Dániel Bárth
Part IV: Possession and Social Reality: Possession as Indigenous Historiography
18 Possession, Communication and Power in Himachal Pradesh (North India) • Daniela Berti
19 A Day-to-Day Family Chronicle with “Personages” in Madagascar • Michèle Fiéloux and Jacques Lombard
20 Anthropological Spirits and Colonial Consciousness in Arabic-Speaking Sudan • Janice Boddy
21 From Illness to Trance: The Socialization of Spirit Possession in Senegal • András Zempléni
22 On Spirit Possession and Some Parallels with Reincarnation • Michael Lambek
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index
Geographical Index