...Stephen Briggs; Andrew Whittaker We undertook a critical review of literature ( Grant and Booth, 2009 ) through searching electronic databases and items retrieved were assessed for relevance. The relationship between religious beliefs in witchcraft and spirit possession and child abuse is complex...

..., their activities often came under the scrutiny of religious authorities as they were denounced to the commissioners of the Inquisition of Lisbon or to priests in the local parishes. The most commonly denounced healing practice was a spirit possession ritual referred to as calundu . Besides organizing...

...This chapter argues that a ritual approach to Jesus’ healing is a meaningful project: the topic converges with many issues that anthropologists of shamanism and spirit possession have discussed under the general rubric of ‘ritual healing’. Insights and theories from such studies shed light on Jesus...

... with tropical forest ecosystems (especially the Amazonian), where, rather than sameness, diversity of beings is striking at any particular locale. Through ethnography of spirit possession (during the “big animistic visit”) combined with glimpses into myths, interspecies kinship, and ad hoc approach...

...This chapter traces the history and origins of zar in order to elucidate how it migrated with Abyssinian slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to Egypt. It lays the basis for understanding zar spirit possession as practiced in Cairo from the nineteenth...

... explores changes in the articulation of spirit possession by focusing on the spirit pair of Yawra Bey and Rakousha Hanem. Finally, it looks at zar music bands and their styles of singing, along with the history of the song “Banat al-Handasa”. Egyptian zar Levi Strauss...

...This chapter explores the movement and recoalescing of eight essential elements into the African Religion Complex (ARC), thus enabling the Hoodoo religion to emerge briefly: counterclockwise sacred circle dancing; spirit possession; the principle of sacrifice; ritual water immersion; divination...

..., for instance, has to do with the documentation of intriguing practices of spirit possession in various cultures around the world. To confront the topic of virtual authorship, then, is to try to understand how the very seat of human agency can be transformed. The chapter examines action projection to imaginary...

...This chapter focuses on the spirit possession of Tooy in 2000 and 2006. It explains that Tooy would slip into possession so gently that it was only detectable by the way he addressed his sister-in-law Sally and his assistant Kaluse. This chapter also shares the author's observation that Tooy's god...

... and therapists alike. It then investigates the conscious indigenous theories about ngoma, which are usually based on the hypothesis of spirit possession as the basis of the misfortune. The relationship of scientific or empirical knowledge to ritual healing is covered. Spirit is a manner...

...This book examines the phenomenon of spirit possession among the Hindus in agricultural communities of Tamil Nadu, South India, where deities, spirits, and ghosts directly entered human beings and changed them radically for brief periods. It considers the fluidity and ambiguity of the meanings...

... of disunity, and offers a more complex appraisal of passivity phenomena. With regard to discontinuity of self, the chapter investigates patterns of discontinuity in spirit possession, dissociative identity disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. It notes similarities and differences in these patterns...

...This chapter examines the occurrences of spirit possession in Italy and Portugal. Belief in ghostly possession was an ancient idea that is traced to classical Roman paganism. However, the form in which it is encountered in Italy and Portugal appears to have coexisted with the Christian teaching...

... even in scholarship anchored in feminist and queer theory; this chapter thus seeks to render explicit the extent and nature of their engagement with the modalities of everyday praxis—apart from spirit possession—that convert homes into Afro-Diasporic houses of worship. Consulting the much larger...

... and analyzes it as a ritual. It introduces the khulī hāzirī and spirit possession practices. challā strings ḥāẓ irī spirit possession ḥāẓirī gum ḥāẓirī khulī jālī latticewtork associa tion with air lobān distribution saints Muslim spirits malevolent Cābuk Sharīf culture South Asian...

... of consciousness cave art emotion exorcism glossolalia prophecy ritual synchrony shamanism signalling theory spirit possession The categories of ritual and religious experience do not overlap completely, but the two coincide in a rich interplay of mutual influence, though few studies of biblical...

...The literature of spirit possession repeatedly emphasizes the contrast between the convulsive spasms of the disoriented novice and the controlled trances of the authoritative medium who is no longer, in the Afro-Brazilian distinction, an undisciplined child, but a mother or father of the god...

... unconsciousness Venezuela archaization Asad Talal authenticity Christianity commodification culture Derrida Jacques Durkheim Emile evidence experience fantasy globality messianism modernity religion revitalization ritual sacred skepticism space spirit possession Vattimo Gianni Buddhism...

... Terence Revill George affect distribution evidence Gellner Ernest movement s mythology nationalism Buddhism conversion emblem incarnation marginality mediums personal money skills Lidia Guzy India Subaltern Tance Spirit possession Media Ritual Folklore As a medium of religious...

... religion serialization spirit possession telephone video writing African religions ancestors body global image imaginations scripture secrecy Wendl Tobias animation audience colonization communication cult embodiment Giles Linda iconicity intensity Kramer Fritz local knowledge...