Epidemiology of Spirit Possession Among the Luvale of Zambia

1978 ◽  
pp. 165-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Spring
Keyword(s):  
Spirit Possession

Spirit Possession Scale

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena Ertl ◽  
Anett Pfeiffer ◽  
Regina Saile ◽  
Elisabeth Schauer ◽  
Thomas Elbert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spirit Possession

Spirit Possession or a phenomenon of Crying Identity!

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
Gulnar Akber Ali ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spirit Possession

The Divine Presence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barend J. ter Haar
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Spirit Possession ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Local People ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Dreams And Visions

Statues and other images were central in the worship of the anthropomorphic deities that became increasingly popular from the Song onwards. Stories would be attached to them, both more personal recent memories and collectively transmitted miracles from the more distant past. These images and stories structured how people imagined the deity and what he was capable of. They enabled them to identify the deity when he appeared to them in a dream, in a vision, or even in real life. This chapter follows the ways in which people encountered Lord Guan in temples and shrines, as well as in dreams and visions, and how they actively enacted him in ritual theatre and different forms of spirit possession. It closes by looking at some of the stories that local people in some regions told of the deity’s early life, again with the aim of making him more real and more imaginable.

SPIRIT POSSESSION IN HAITI

1961 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARI KIEV
Keyword(s):  
Spirit Possession

WOMEN'S MAWLID PERFORMANCES IN SANAA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF “POPULAR ISLAM”

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Holmes Katz
Keyword(s):  
Spirit Possession ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Great Cost ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Religious Lives ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
The Relationship

It has long been recognized that much of the richness of Muslim women's ritual lives has been found outside of both the mosque and the “five pillars of Islam,” in a wide set of devotional practices that have met with varying degrees of affirmation and censure from male religious scholars. This recognition has given rise to a valuable literature on such practices as shrine visitation, spirit-possession rituals, and Twelver Shiʿi women's domestic ceremonies. The prevalence of such noncanonical rituals in Muslim women's lives, although waning in many parts of the contemporary world, raises questions about the relationship between women's religious practices and the constitution of Islamic orthodoxies. Have women, often given lesser access to mosque-based and canonical rituals, historically resorted to autonomous and rewarding religious practices that are, nevertheless, fated to be marginalized in the male-dominated construction of Islamic normativity—a normativity that women may ultimately internalize and master only at great cost to their religious lives?

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