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This volume brings together a collection of articles that conceptually focus on dynamic engagements with spirits and other-world beings, focusing on the concepts of spirits, possession and witchery.

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Author:   Graham Harvey (Open University, UK) ,  Amy Whitehead
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.807kg
ISBN:  

9781138338555

ISBN 10:   1138338559
Pages:   341
Publication Date:   30 October 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction to Volume III Part 1: Spirits 1. “This is My Profession: Changes in African Ritual Consciousness over Thirty-One Years 2. The Crystal Forest: notes on the Ontology of Amazonian Spirits 3. Spirit Mediumship in Brazil: The Controversy about Semi-Conscious Mediums 4. Spirit Possession in a New Religious Context: The umbandization of Santo Daime Part 2: Mediumship, possession and other relations 5. No past, no present: A critical-Nayaka perspective on cultural remembering 6. The State Oracle of Tibet, spirit possession, and shamanism 7. Definitive evidence, from Cuban gods 8. Assault Sorcery 9. Transdimensional relations: On human-spirit interaction in the Amazon 10. The vanishing hitchhiker in Shillong: Khasi belief narratives and violence against women Part 3: Witchery 11. Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony: Witchery and sacrifice of self 12. Healing And The human condition: Scenes from the present moment in Navajoland 13. Rethinking religion, magic and witchcraft in South Africa: From colonial coherence to postcolonial conundrum 14. Oracles, trauma, and the limits of contextualization: Naming the witch in contemporary Kenya 15. Natural and Supernatural: Intersections between the spiritual and natural worlds in African witchcraft and healing with reference to southern Africa 16. Muthi, medicine and witchcraft: Regulating ‘African science’ in post-apartheid South Africa? 17. Karanga traditional medicine and healing

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Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. Dr Amy Whitehead is based at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK.

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