The Self Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization
Smith, Frederick M
The Self Possessed is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years.In South Asia possession has always been broader and more diverse than in the West, where it has been almost entirely characterized as ""demonic."" At best, spirit poss...
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2012
Wydawnictwo:
Columbia University Press
Język:
english
Strony:
732
ISBN 10:
0231510659
ISBN 13:
9780231510653
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EPUB, 19.86 MB
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english, 2012
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