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Having the spirit of Christ : spirit possession and exorcism in the early Christ groups
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ISBN: 9780300245622 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Haven London Yale University Press

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Having the spirit of Christ : spirit possession and exorcism in the early Christ groups
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ISBN: 0300249519 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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A provocative reinterpretation of accounts of spirit possession and exorcism in early Christianity The earliest Christian writings are filled with stories of possession and exorcism, which were crucial for the activity of the historical Jesus and for the practice of his earliest followers. Possession, besides being a harmful event that should be exorcized, can also have a positive role in many cultures. Often it helps individuals and groups to reflect on and reshape their identity, to plan their moral actions, and to remember in a most vivid way their past.

La possession en Asie du Sud : Parole, corps, territoire
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ISBN: 2713213320 271323140X 9782713213328 Year: 2020 Volume: 21 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales,

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En Asie du Sud, la possession par des divinités ou des esprits, entendue comme cette présence étrangère à soi en soi, n’a guère été prise en compte dans la réflexion générale s’intéressant à ce type de manifestation. Dans le sous-continent lui-même, son étude s’est focalisée sur les zones géographiques périphériques et concentrée majoritairement sur les « tribus ». De plus, nombre d’interprétations l’ont réduite à une catégorie autonome, perdant de vue qu’il s’agit de l’une de ces interactions parmi tant d’autres, à la croisée des idiosyncrasies et des symboles partagés, par lesquelles les acteurs mettent en forme leur monde. En articulant leur réflexion sur la parole, le corps et le territoire, les quinze auteurs de ce volume ont voulu restituer la multiplicité des significations et la variété de ses liens avec toute une série de pratiques sociales et d’institutions, de discours et d’émotions. La possession, comme trajectoire de vie, perception des espaces propres aux dieux et aux hommes et représentation de la société, y compris dans ses dimensions identitaires et politiques, est à la fois mode de pensée et d’action. Ainsi apparaît-elle, par excellence, comme un « travail de la culture » qui lie intimement perception individuelle, modèle cognitif et société.


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Demonic possession and lived religion in later medieval Europe
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ISBN: 9780198850465 0198850468 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press,

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"This book focuses on conceptualizations of lived religion by analysing significant case studies from canonization processes (c. 1240–1450). Geographically it covers Western Europe and one of its aims is to compare Northern and Southern material and customs. ‘Lived religion’ is both a thematic approach and a methodology: a focus on rituals, symbols, and gestures as well as sensitivity to nuances and careful contextualizing of the sources are constitutive elements of the argumentation. Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms. The main argument developed throughout is, however, that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to the community and culture. Each set of sources formed its own specific context, in which demonic presence derived from different motivations, reasonings, and methods of categorization. Rituals, gestures, emotions, and sensory elements in constructing demonic presence reveal negotiations over authority and agency. In the argumentation, the hierarchy between the ‘learned’ and ‘popular’ within religion is contested, as is a strict polarity between individual and collective religious participation. Cases of demonic possession demonstrate how the personal affected the communal, and vice versa, and how they were eventually transformed into discourses and institutions of the Church; that is, definitions of the miraculous and the diabolical. Alterity and inversion of identity, gender, and various forms of corporeality and the interplay between the sacred and diabolical are themes running throughout the volume."


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Signs of the spirit
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ISBN: 0252052137 0252043251 0252085175 9780252052132 9780252043253 9780252085178 Year: 2020 Publisher: Urbana

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This text is an ethnography of spirit possession ceremonies and accompanying musical practices in the rural Ndau-speaking communities surrounding Chipinge, Zimbabwe. Collectively called madhlozi, these spirits are the 'outsider spirits' of distant social encounters that have shaped Ndau identity and history. The purpose of this book is to explain how musicking during ceremonial life in rural Ndau communities in Zimbabwe is meaningfully experienced during a single spirit possession ceremony. It investigates the immediacy of musical experience and the ways in which the ongoing present of ceremonial performance becomes emotional and socially salient.

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