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Dynamic Cosmos Movement, Paradox, and Experimentation in the Anthropology of Spirit Possession

Santo, Diana Espírito Shapiro, Matan
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350299368
Publisert
2023-12-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Redaktør
Santo, Diana Espírito
Shapiro, Matan

Om bidragsyterne

Diana Espirito Santo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Matan Shapiro is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, UK.

Dynamic Cosmos Movement, Paradox, and Experimentation in the Anthropology of Spirit Possession

Santo, Diana Espírito Shapiro, Matan
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
Santo, Diana Espírito Shapiro, Matan
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
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Sparkling with insights into spirit possession, <i>The</i> <i>Dynamic Cosmos</i> proposes play and performance as touchstones for understanding cosmological alterity. Simultaneity, co-production, and the richness of paradox take center stage as the authors collectively script a new language for one of our species’ most vexing practices. A singular offering from the most original voices writing on spirit possession today, this volume overflows with ideas nested in unforgettable scenes of communal transformation.

Todd Ramón Ochoa, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA and author of Society of the Dead (2010) and A Party for Lazarus (2020)

<i>The Dynamic Cosmos</i> is a must-read volume bringing together an excellent collection of ethnographies from different social and cultural contexts. Proposing a completely new, fascinating, and groundbreaking way to understand spirit possession, this work challenges scholars to rethink and reconsider the limits of anthropological representations and classifications. The idea of inviting authors to analyze spirit possession based on concepts such as ‘play,’ ‘simultaneity,’ and ‘paradox’ proves to be absolutely brilliant.

Diana Riboli, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and President of the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS), Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece

This edited volume applies the analytic notions of paradox and play to the ethnographic manifestation of spirits, angels, and demons in different locations around the world. The 10 case studies conceptualize the co-presence of humans and entities with terms that do not exclude spiritual reasoning on the one hand, and social explanations on the other. Through in-depth descriptions of localized possession cosmologies, the different chapters collectively propose path-breaking methodological directions in this field, which incorporate ethnographic theories of simultaneity into anthropological theories of religion, kinship, and ritual. Framed by an introduction written by the editors and an afterword by Michael Lambek, a leading authority in possessions studies, the volume contains cutting edge analyses that will provide readers with new tools to evaluate previously unstudied aspects of spirit possession; all of which stem from the fantastic forms of human movement that accompany the phenomenality of paradoxes in mundane reality.
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION. Possession & paradox. Matan Shapiro & Diana Espírito Santo 1. Angels and demons: notes on kinship and exorcism at an Ethiopian orthodox shrine. Diego Malara, University of Glasgow 2. Spirit possessions, racial dispossessions: the second diaspora of race in Afro-Cuban religious experience. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, University of Lisbon 3. Between possessor and possessed. J. Brent Crosson, University of Texas, Austin 4. Waiting for the deities: spirit possession in the middle voice. Miho Ishii, Kyoto University 5. The motion-power of the collective, or, how spirits “come into view” in Cuba. Diana Espírito Santo, Pontificia Universidad Católica Chile 6. (En)spirited pedagogy: learning and simultaneity in Pentecostalism. Bruno Reinhardt, Federal University of Santa Catarina 7. A theory of passage: paradox and neo-Pentecostal expulsion of demons in Brazil. Matan Shapiro, University of Stavanger 8. The threshold of the cosmos: priestly scriptures and shamanic wilderness in Southwest China. Katherine Swancutt, King’s College London 9. The Mormon dead. Jon Bialecki, University of Edinburgh 10. On the existence of witches, or, how anthropology works. Marcio Goldman, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro AFTERWORD. Michael Lambek, University of Toronto NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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Sparkling with insights into spirit possession, The Dynamic Cosmos proposes play and performance as touchstones for understanding cosmological alterity. Simultaneity, co-production, and the richness of paradox take center stage as the authors collectively script a new language for one of our species’ most vexing practices. A singular offering from the most original voices writing on spirit possession today, this volume overflows with ideas nested in unforgettable scenes of communal transformation.
Les mer
An anthropological and sociological exploration of the notion of spirit possession across diverse contexts and periods.
Includes yet-unpublished contemporary ethnographic analyses of cases of spirit possession worldwide by some of the most exciting young anthropologists working on spirit possession at the moment
Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies publishes cutting-edge research in the Study of Religion/s. The series draws on anthropological, ethnographical, historical, sociological and textual methods amongst others. Topics are diverse, but each publication integrates theoretical analysis with empirical data. The series aims to refresh the interdisciplinary agenda in new evidence-based studies of ‘religion’. Afe Adogame, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA Amy Allocco, Elon University, USA Jenny Berglund, University of Stockholm, Sweden Ezra Chitando, University of Harare, Zimbabwe Phibul Choompolpaisal, Mahidol Univeristy, Thailand Carole Cusack, University of Sydney, Australia Satoko Fujiwara, University of Tokyo, Japan Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, England Siv Ellen Kraft, UiT The Arctic University of Norway James Kapalo, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland Pratap Kumar, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Kim Knibbe, University of Groningen, Netherlands Frank Usarski, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
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Sparkling with insights into spirit possession, <i>The</i> <i>Dynamic Cosmos</i> proposes play and performance as touchstones for understanding cosmological alterity. Simultaneity, co-production, and the richness of paradox take center stage as the authors collectively script a new language for one of our species’ most vexing practices. A singular offering from the most original voices writing on spirit possession today, this volume overflows with ideas nested in unforgettable scenes of communal transformation.

Todd Ramón Ochoa, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA and author of Society of the Dead (2010) and A Party for Lazarus (2020)

<i>The Dynamic Cosmos</i> is a must-read volume bringing together an excellent collection of ethnographies from different social and cultural contexts. Proposing a completely new, fascinating, and groundbreaking way to understand spirit possession, this work challenges scholars to rethink and reconsider the limits of anthropological representations and classifications. The idea of inviting authors to analyze spirit possession based on concepts such as ‘play,’ ‘simultaneity,’ and ‘paradox’ proves to be absolutely brilliant.

Diana Riboli, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and President of the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS), Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece

This edited volume applies the analytic notions of paradox and play to the ethnographic manifestation of spirits, angels, and demons in different locations around the world. The 10 case studies conceptualize the co-presence of humans and entities with terms that do not exclude spiritual reasoning on the one hand, and social explanations on the other. Through in-depth descriptions of localized possession cosmologies, the different chapters collectively propose path-breaking methodological directions in this field, which incorporate ethnographic theories of simultaneity into anthropological theories of religion, kinship, and ritual. Framed by an introduction written by the editors and an afterword by Michael Lambek, a leading authority in possessions studies, the volume contains cutting edge analyses that will provide readers with new tools to evaluate previously unstudied aspects of spirit possession; all of which stem from the fantastic forms of human movement that accompany the phenomenality of paradoxes in mundane reality.
Les mer
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION. Possession & paradox. Matan Shapiro & Diana Espírito Santo 1. Angels and demons: notes on kinship and exorcism at an Ethiopian orthodox shrine. Diego Malara, University of Glasgow 2. Spirit possessions, racial dispossessions: the second diaspora of race in Afro-Cuban religious experience. Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, University of Lisbon 3. Between possessor and possessed. J. Brent Crosson, University of Texas, Austin 4. Waiting for the deities: spirit possession in the middle voice. Miho Ishii, Kyoto University 5. The motion-power of the collective, or, how spirits “come into view” in Cuba. Diana Espírito Santo, Pontificia Universidad Católica Chile 6. (En)spirited pedagogy: learning and simultaneity in Pentecostalism. Bruno Reinhardt, Federal University of Santa Catarina 7. A theory of passage: paradox and neo-Pentecostal expulsion of demons in Brazil. Matan Shapiro, University of Stavanger 8. The threshold of the cosmos: priestly scriptures and shamanic wilderness in Southwest China. Katherine Swancutt, King’s College London 9. The Mormon dead. Jon Bialecki, University of Edinburgh 10. On the existence of witches, or, how anthropology works. Marcio Goldman, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro AFTERWORD. Michael Lambek, University of Toronto NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
Les mer
Sparkling with insights into spirit possession, The Dynamic Cosmos proposes play and performance as touchstones for understanding cosmological alterity. Simultaneity, co-production, and the richness of paradox take center stage as the authors collectively script a new language for one of our species’ most vexing practices. A singular offering from the most original voices writing on spirit possession today, this volume overflows with ideas nested in unforgettable scenes of communal transformation.
Les mer
An anthropological and sociological exploration of the notion of spirit possession across diverse contexts and periods.
Includes yet-unpublished contemporary ethnographic analyses of cases of spirit possession worldwide by some of the most exciting young anthropologists working on spirit possession at the moment
Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies publishes cutting-edge research in the Study of Religion/s. The series draws on anthropological, ethnographical, historical, sociological and textual methods amongst others. Topics are diverse, but each publication integrates theoretical analysis with empirical data. The series aims to refresh the interdisciplinary agenda in new evidence-based studies of ‘religion’. Afe Adogame, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA Amy Allocco, Elon University, USA Jenny Berglund, University of Stockholm, Sweden Ezra Chitando, University of Harare, Zimbabwe Phibul Choompolpaisal, Mahidol Univeristy, Thailand Carole Cusack, University of Sydney, Australia Satoko Fujiwara, University of Tokyo, Japan Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, England Siv Ellen Kraft, UiT The Arctic University of Norway James Kapalo, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland Pratap Kumar, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Kim Knibbe, University of Groningen, Netherlands Frank Usarski, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350299368
Publisert
2023-12-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Redaktør
Santo, Diana Espírito
Shapiro, Matan

Om bidragsyterne

Diana Espirito Santo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Matan Shapiro is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, UK.

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