Developing the dead : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo /
Diana Espírito Santo.
Bok Engelsk 2015 Diana Espirito Santo
| Utgitt | University Press of Florida , 2015
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| Omfang | xvii, 319 pages : : illustrations ;
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| Opplysninger | Spirits at the crossroads of belief and pragmatism -- Spiritism and the place of the dead in Afro-Cuban religion -- On good mediumship: science, revolution, and legitimacy -- Encounter, selfhood, and multiplicity -- Development as cosmogony: ritual and materialization -- Epilogue: biographical intersections.. - This book is the first sustained, deep ethnographic study of Espiritismo (Spiritism) in Cuba. In it, Espirito Santo examines in-depth the daily rhythms of how individual practitioners' experiences and conceptions of selfhood are shaped.
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| ISBN | 978-0813060781
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