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- Communicating with the Spirits
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: Central European University Press
summary
Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation—trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.Recognized historians and ethnologists analyze the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. The essays address links between rites and beliefs, folklore and literature; the legacy of various pre-Christian mythologies; the syncretic forms of ancient, medieval and modern belief- and rite-systems; "pure" examples from religious-ethnological research outside Europe to elucidate European problems.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. 4
- Copyright Page
- p. 5
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vi
- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-8
- Introduction
- pp. 1-17
- Part II: Contacts with the Other World
- pp. 153-212
- Part III: Divination, Shamanism
- pp. 213-222
- List of Contributors
- pp. 264-268
- Back Cover
- p. 304
Additional Information
ISBN
9786155053566
Related ISBN(s)
9789637326134
MARC Record
OCLC
616786233
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2013-06-27
Language
English
Open Access
No