Ceremonial spirit possession in Africa and Afro America

• Author : Sheila S. Walker
• Publisher : Brill Archive
• Release : 01 January 1972

• Author : Svenja Völkel
• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
• Release : 30 June 2022

This interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between culture, language and cognition based on the aspects of social structure, space and possession in Tonga, Polynesia. Grounded on extensive field research, Volkel explores the subject from an anthropological as well as from a linguistic perspective. The book provides new insights into the language of respect, an honorific system which is deeply anchored in the societal hierarchy, spatial descriptions that are determined by socio-cultural and geocentric parameters, kinship terminology and possessive categories that

• Author : Michel de Certeau
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 01 August 2000

It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic retellings, including a novel by Aldous Huxley and an incendiary film by Ken Russell, the story of the possession at Loudun here receives a compelling analysis from the

• Author : Philippe Rochat
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 11 September 2014

Studies the psychology surrounding the development of owning and sharing in humans across different cultures.

• Author : Philip C. Almond
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 01 July 2004

This book is exclusively devoted to demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England. It offers modernized versions of the most significant early modern texts on nine cases of demonic possession from the period 1570 to 1650, the key period in English history for demonic possession. The nine stories were all written by eyewitnesses or were derived from eyewitness reports. They involve matters of life and death, sin and sanctity, guilt and innocence, of crimes which could not be committed and punishments

• Author : C. Torrington
• Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
• Release : 15 January 2016

The idea of people possessed by evil spirits against their will is as old as the hills. Often there is thought to be a special way a person has become possessed. It might be the result of a curse cast on them by a sorcerer, or some unfortunate mishap such as stepping over a dead body. Or the demons can have been invited, in a Satanic ritual. More often, at least in recent Christian tradition, there is no initiating moment

• Author : D. Vance Smith
• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
• Release : 01 January 2003

An innovative work of both economic anthropology and literary history, Arts of Possession draws on philosophical, theoretical, literary, historical, and archival sources and insights to situate the household at the center of the social and cultural imagination of fourteenth-century England. D. Vance Smith argues that in a period commonly represented as precapitalist there actually existed a sophisticated economic discourse -- and that discourse underlies common forms of representation and the writing of literary texts. His work provides a new historiography

• Author : Lea Mauas,Michelle MacQueen,Diego Rotman
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Release : 19 April 2022

The book includes articles, documentation and a catalog of the Ethnographic Department of the Museum of the Contemporary. It is the fruit of a long-term project carried out at the Mamuta Art and Research Center and curated by the Sala-Manca Group. It contains articles by Yoram Bilu, Rachel Elior, Freddie Rokem and Diego Rotman on the Dybbuk; by Galit Hasan-Rokem and Daphna Ben-Shaul on Sukkot, and on the Eternal Sukkah project; by Shalom Sabar on electric Shabbat candles, and by

• Author : Dr Anna French
• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Release : 28 December 2015

The spiritual status of the early modern child was often confused and uncertain, and yet in the wake of the English Reformation became an issue of urgent interest. This book explores questions surrounding early modern childhood, focusing especially on some of the extreme religious experiences in which children are documented: those of demonic possession and godly prophecy.

• Author : Diana L. Paxson
• Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
• Release : 01 March 2015

Bestselling author of several fantasy novels, including Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Ancestors of Avalon, Diana L. Paxson now turns her attention to Trance Possession. Specifically, how to safely and effectively enter and to exit possessory trance. In possessory trance, one voluntarily offers one’s body as a vehicle for spirit work. This differs from other forms of trance in that one’s “normal” personality is replaced by a personality that is identified by oneself and one’s community as a

• Author : Maura Velázquez-Castillo
• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
• Release : 19 December 1996

The Grammar of Possession: Inalienability, incorporation and possessor ascension in Guaraní, is an exhaustive study of linguistic structures in Paraguayan Guaraní which are directly or indirectly associated with the semantic domain of inalienability. Constructions analyzed in the book include adnominal and predicative possessive constructions, noun incorporation, and possessor ascension. Examples are drawn from a rich data base that incorporate native speaker intuitions and resources in the construction of illustrative linguistic forms as well as the analysis of the communicative use

• Author : T Woods
• Publisher : AuthorHouse
• Release : 19 February 2014

What if you abhorred the institution of slavery but inherited a large southern plantation with 500 slaves? What if you inherited your best friend? What if you opposed seceding from the union but federal trops were coming to burn your house and property? What if you couldn't reconcile being a Christian and owning slaves? What if you were captured and taken to Rock Island Prison in Illinois? What if you were separated from the love of your life? These were the

• Author : Samuel Pechel
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 June 1781

• Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 June 2022

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 June 2022