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How about demons? : possession and exorcism in the modern world
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ISBN: 025301462X Year: 1988 Publisher: Bloomington, [Indiana] ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press,

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""Quite an interesting book... "" -Religious Studies Review""It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years."" -The American Rationalist""... Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatment of a compelling and much-debated subject."" -Journal of Folklore ResearchRich in detail derived from the author's fieldwork and the anthropological literature, this work paints a picture of possession as one of the usually positive and most widespread of human religious experiences. It also details the ritual of exorcism,

Where the spirits ride the wind
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ISBN: 0253014646 9780253014641 0253327644 0253205662 9781461957652 1461957656 9780253327642 9780253205667 Year: 1990 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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""The book is clearly written for the general reader and includes many descriptions of trance experiences. It may serve as a good introduction to the nature and appeal of the shamanic revival in modern Western cultures."" -Theological Book Review""... a case study in experiential anthropology that offers a unique mix of autobiography, mythology, experiential research, and archaeological data to support a challenging thesis-that certain body postures may help induce specific trance states."" -Shaman's Drum""This is a spellbinding and exceptionally readable book by an extraordin

The Realm of the Extra-Human.
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ISBN: 9027977496 3110805847 0202900266 9780202900261 0202900266 9789027977496 9783110805840 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Papers presented to the IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.

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