Spirits and Trance in Brazil
An Anthropology of Religious Experience
Bettina E. Schmidt explores experiences usually labelled as spirit possession, a highly contested and challenged term, using extensive ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil and home to a range of religions which practice spirit possession. The book is enriched by excerpts from interviews with people about their experiences. It focuses on spirit possession in Afro-Brazilian religions and spiritism, as well as discussing the notion of exorcism in Charismatic Christian communities. Spirits and Trance in Brazil: An Anthropology of Religious Experience is divided into three sections which present the three main a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4742-5568-4
- EAN: 9781474255684
- Produktnummer: 20184257
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 18'924 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 10 bw illus
Über den Autor
Bettina E. Schmidt is Professor in the Study of Religions and Director of Graduate Studies at the School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK.
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