دانلود کتاب Spirits and Trance in Brazil: An anthropology of religious experience

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Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nIllustrations\nAcknowledgements\n1. The Changing Face of Ecstatic Religions in Brazil\n Introduction\n Research context and methodology\n The primary research field of Candomblé, Umbanda and Spiritism\n Other features of Brazilian religiosity: New Age and the charismatic turn of Brazil\n2. Gender, Race and Class: The Social Dimension of Religious Experience\n Introduction\n Academic explanations and challenges of the gender division\n The debate about women’s predominance in possession rituals in Brazil\n The social stratification of people experiencing ecstatic religions in Brazil\n3. Experiencing and Explaining Ecstatic Religions: Religious Experience Revisited\n Introduction\n Academic debate about the experience of ecstatic (and other) religions\n The divine transformation and the role of the possessing agency in Candomblé\n Mediumship as means of communication: A secular approach to trance?\n Exorcism and the interpretation of the Orixás and spirits as demons\n4. Agency, Cognition and Embodiment: Paradigms in the Body/ Mind Debate\n Introduction\n The agency of mediums\n Spirit possession and the human brain\n The embodiment paradigm and the possessed body\n5. Conclusion: Spirit Possession as a Deictic Concept\nNotes\nGlossary\nBibliography\nIndex