Ceremonial spirit possession in Africa and Afro-America
Author : Sheila S. Walker
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004035843
Author : Sheila S. Walker
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004035843
Author : Walker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004671269
Author : Sheila S. Walker
Publisher :
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Sheila S. Walker
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
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Author : Irving I. Zaretsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1000517527
Originally published in 1978 Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America is an incredibly diverse and comprehensive bibliography on published works containing ethnographic data on, and analysis of, spirit possession and spirit mediumship in North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in some Afro-American communities in the Western Hemisphere. The sources on Western Afro-American communities were chosen to shed light on the African continent and the Americas. The bibliography, while not exhaustive, provides extensive research on the area of research in spiritualism in Africa and Afro-America. The bibliography also provides unique sources on spirit cults, ritual or ethnic groups and will be of especial interest to researchers. Although published in the late 70s, this book will still provide an incredibly useful research tool for academics in the area of religion, with a focus on spiritualism and non-western religions.
Author : Irving Zaretsky
Publisher :
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Spiritualism
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Author : Paul Christopher Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 022612293X
The word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into things—via slavery—and ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher Johnson gathers together essays by leading anthropologists in the Americas that reopen the concept of possession on these two fronts in order to examine the relationship between African religions in the Atlantic and the economies that have historically shaped—and continue to shape—the cultures that practice them. Exploring the way spirit possessions were framed both by material things—including plantations, the Catholic church, the sea, and the phonograph—as well as by the legacy of slavery, they offer a powerful new way of understanding the Atlantic world.
Author : Joseph M. Murphy
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 1995-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807012215
"An appreciative and user-friendly book on religion in the African diaspora. Murphy's skillfully drawn portraits offer an inviting introduction to the religious worlds of Vodou, Candomble, Santeria, Revival Zion, and the Black Church" – David W. Wills, Amherst College
Author : Thomas J. Csordas
Publisher :
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Candomblé (Religion)
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Author : John Beattie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136527656
Gathering together under a single cover material from a wide range of African societies, this volume allows similarities and differences to be easily perceived and suggests social correlates of these in terms of age, sex, marital status, social grading and wealth. It includes material on both traditional and modern cults.