The Dynamic Cosmos: Movement, Paradox, And Experimentation In The Anthropology Of Spirit Possession (Bloomsbury Advances In Religious Studies)

This volume, written by cutting-edge anthropologists currently working on spirit possession, aims to conceptualize possession using words and concepts that do not exclude spiritual explanations on the one hand, and social explanations on the other. Applying the notion of "paradox" to the ethnographic manifestation of possession in different places around the world, the 10 case studies debate this approach through in-depth descriptions of possession cosmologies while suggesting innovative new ways to incorporate (or reject) the notion of paradox into anthropological theory. Framed by an introduction by the Editors and an afterword by Michael Lambek, a leading authority in possessions studies, the volume contains exciting new ways to think with and through possession, paradox and the forms of human and fantastic movements that accompany the manifestation of these two terms in mundane reality.

• | Author: Diana Espírito Santo|Matan Shapiro
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Jun 16, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 1350298859
• | ISBN-13: 9781350298859