Spirit Possession and Trance: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Continuum Advances in Religious Studies)

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1. Introduction......Page 12
2. Animism rather than Shamanism: New Approaches to what Shamans do (for other animists)......Page 27
3. Possession and Self-Possession: Towards an Integrated Mind–Body Perspective......Page 46
4. Spirit Possession, Seduction and Collective Consciousness......Page 64
5. Analytical Psychology and Spirit Possession: Towards a Non-Pathological Diagnosis of Spirit Possession......Page 82
6. Possessed Women in the African Diaspora: Gender Difference in Spirit Possession Rituals......Page 108
7. Somali Saar in the Era of Social and Religious Change......Page 128
8. Taking Possession of Santo Daime: The Growth of Umbanda within a Brazilian New Religion......Page 145
9. Spirit Attacks in Northern Namibia: Interpreting a New Phenomenon in an African Lutheran Context......Page 162
10. Divine Possession and Divination in the Graeco-Roman World: The Evidence from Iamblichus’s: On the Mysteries......Page 182
11. Waking the Entranced: Reassessing Spiritualist Mediumship Through a Comparison of Spiritualist and Shamanic Spirit Possession Practices......Page 197
12. To Perform Possession and to be Possessed in Performance: The Actor, the Medium and an ‘Other’......Page 216
13. On the Transformation of the Spirit Possession Film: Towards Rouch as ‘Emergent Method’......Page 234
B......Page 251
E......Page 252
I......Page 253
N......Page 254
R......Page 255
T......Page 256
Z......Page 257