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An Anthropology of Religious Experience
By Bettina E. Schmidt, Craig Martin, Cox, James, Steven Sutcliffe and William Sweetman
"Spirits and Trance in Brazil" was published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in 2016, it has 240 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Spirits and Trance in Brazil” Metadata:
- Title: Spirits and Trance in Brazil
- Authors: Bettina E. SchmidtCraig MartinCox, JamesSteven SutcliffeWilliam Sweetman
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 240
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publish Date: 2016
“Spirits and Trance in Brazil” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Experience (religion) - Trance - Brazil, religion - Brazil, social life and customs - Spirit possession - Religion - General - Sociology of religion - Cultural - Social sciences -> religion -> general - Social sciences -> sociology -> sociology of religion - Social sciences -> anthropology -> cultural anthropology - Tr - Mng
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL28588281M - OL21119854W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 921033569 - 944394322
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2016010426
- ISBN-13: 9781474255677
- All ISBNs: 9781474255677
AI-generated Review of “Spirits and Trance in Brazil”:
"Spirits and Trance in Brazil" Description:
The Open Library:
"Bettina E. Schmidt explores experiences usually labelled as spirit possession, a highly contested and challenged term, using extensive ethnographic research conducted in S o 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 areas in the study of spirit possession. The first section looks at the social dimension of spirit possession, in particular gender roles associated with spirit possession in Brazil and racial stratification of the communities. It shows how gender roles and racial composition have adapted alongside changes in society in the last 100 years. The second section focuses on the way people interpret their practice. It shows that the interpretations of this practice depend on the human relationship to the possessing entities. The third section explores a relatively new field of research, the Western discourse of mind/body dualism and the wide field of cognition and embodiment. All sections together confirm the significance of discussing spirit possession within a wider framework that embraces physical elements as well as cultural and social ones. Bringing together sociological, anthropological, phenomenological and religious studies approaches, this book offers a new perspective on the study of spirit possession."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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