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Spirit Mediumship and Society in Africa. by Beattie, John

Table of Contents: “…Spirit possession and mediumship among the alurthe theory and practice of sukuma spirit mediumship; spirit initiation in ankole and a christian spirit movement in western kenya; index.…”
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Rough Metaphysics : The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts. by Skafish, Peter

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Developing the dead : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo / by Espirito Santo, Diana

Table of Contents: “…Spirits at the crossroads of belief and pragmatism -- Spiritism and the place of the dead in Afro-Cuban religion -- On good mediumship: science, revolution, and legitimacy -- Encounter, selfhood, and multiplicity -- Development as cosmogony: ritual and materialization -- Epilogue: biographical intersections.…”
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Radclyffe Hall : a life in the writing by Dellamora, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Psychic Incorporation: War, Mourning, and the Technology of Mediumship --…”
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A World of Insecurity : Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security

Table of Contents: “…Ritual efficacy, spiritual security and human security : spirit mediumship in contemporary Vietnam /…”
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Media worlds : anthropology on new terrain

Table of Contents: “…A room with a voice: mediation and mediumship in Thailand's information age /…”
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Songs for the spirits : music and mediums in modern Vietnam by Norton, Barley, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Mediumship, modernity, and cultural identity -- Experiencing spirit possession -- Songs for the spirits -- The musical construction of the spirits -- Musical creativity and change -- Engendering mediumship -- Ritual and folklorization in late socialist Vietnam.…”
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Redefining shamanisms : spiritualist mediums and other traditional shamans as apprenticeship outcomes by Wilson, David Gordon

Table of Contents: “…; Shamanism: A formal definition; How to explore mediumship?; 2 Spiritualism: A modern movement; Outlining Spiritualism; Spiritualism: Believing in modernity; Conclusion; 3 Understanding mediumship; The acknowledged medium: His role and craft; Varieties of mediumistic experience and practice; Trance and mediumistic consciousness; The mediumistic apprenticeship.…”
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Altered states : sex, nation, drugs, and self-transformation in Victorian spiritualism by Tromp, Marlene, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Spirited sexuality : sex, marriage, and Victorian spiritualism -- Wedding stories/ghost stories -- Ghostly erotics and the imperialism in the Victorian drawing room -- Economics, race, and the specter of class -- Drunk with power : stories of ghostly others -- Under the influence : the fox sisters and pernicious spirits -- Haunted : Elizabeth d'Espérance, social justice, and the evolution of mediumship.…”
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Spirit wives and church mothers : marriage, survival, and healing in central Mozambique by Schuetze, Christy K.

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Tantra, ritual performance, and politics in Nepal and Kerala : embodying the goddess-clan by Martin, Matthew, 1991-

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Religious Change In Zambia. by Van

Table of Contents: “…Religious change in Zambia Exploratory studies; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface and acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: Towards a theory of religious change in Central Africa1; The background of the present studies; Possible anthropological contributions to the study of Central African religious change; Evolving models of Central African religion and religious change; Towards a Marxist theory of Central African religious change; Conclusion; Chapter 2Possession and mediumship in Zambia: towards a comparative approach; Introduction.…”
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Trance mediums and new media : spirit possession in the age of technical reproduction

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Trance mediums and new media / Heike Behrend and Martin Zillinger -- On the subject of spirit mediumship in the age of new media / Rosalind C. Morris -- Trance mediums and new media: the heritage of a European term / Erhard Schüttpelz -- Absence and the mediation of the audiovisual unconscious / Martin Zillinger -- New media and traveling spirits: pentecostals in the Vietnamese diaspora and the disaster of the Titanic / Gertrud Hüwelmeier -- Numinous dress/iconic costume: Korean shamans dressed for the gods and for the camera / Laurel Kendall -- Rites of reception: mass-mediated trance and public order in Morocco / Emilio Spadola -- Media and manifestation: the aesthetics and politics of plenitude in central India / Christopher Pinney -- Media transformations: music, goddess embodiment, and politics in western Orissa/India / Lidia Guzy -- Transmitting divine grace: on the materiality of charismatic mediation in Mali / Dorothea E. …”
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Handbook of spiritualism and channeling

Table of Contents: “…Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART 1: Locating Spiritualism; 1: Mesmerism and the Psychological Dimension of Mediumship; 2: Spiritualism and the American Swedenborgian Current; 3: Dead Reckonings: Spirits and Corpses at the Crossroads; 4: Spirit Possession; 5: Queering the Séance: Bodies, Bondage, and Touching in Victorian Spiritualism; PART 2: In Conversation; 6: Man is a Spirit Here and Now: The Two Faces of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Creation of the Magical Occult Theosophical Spiritualist New Thought Amalgam.…”
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The Battle for Fortune : State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China. by Makley, Charlene

Table of Contents: “…The Mountain Deity and the State: Voice, Deity Mediumship, and LandExpropriation in Jima Village; 3. …”
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Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East. by Okkenhaug, Inger Marie

Table of Contents: “…Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Justice without Drama: Observations from Gaza City Sharia Court; 2 From the Army of G-d to the Israeli Armed Forces; 3 To Give the Boys Energy, Manliness, and Self-command in Temper; 4 Women Students at the American University of Beirut; 5 Women's Voluntary Social Welfare Organizations in Egypt; 6 Nineteenth-century Protestant Missions and Middle-Eastern Women; 7 The Paradox of the New Islamic Woman in Turkey; 8 Visions of Mary in the Middle East; 9 An Army of Women Learning Torah; 10 Stones and Stories; 11 Tradition and Change; 12 Vows, Mediumship and Gender; Index.…”
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In Their Right Minds : the Lives and Shared Practices of Poetic Geniuses. by Platt, Carole Brooks

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; Contents ; Front matter; Title page; Publisher information; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Body matter; Introduction; Chapter One -- Art, Music and Poetry in Atypical Minds; Chapter Two -- Sensing Presences: Poetry, Religion and the Right Hemisphere; Chapter Three -- Emotion, Dissociation and Linguistic Creativity; Chapter Four -- The Medium and the Matrix: Unconscious Information and the Therapeutic Dyad; Chapter Five -- From Myth to Mediumship: John Keats and Victor Hugo; Chapter Six -- Dictating Others and Surrogate Mothers: Rainer Maria Rilke and W.B. …”
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Victorian literary mesmerism

Table of Contents: “…Arthur Conan Doyle's Domestic Desires: Mesmerism, Mediumship and Femmes Fatales; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Animism beyond the soul : ontology, reflexivity, and the making of anthropological knowledge

Table of Contents: “…/ Rane Willerslev -- Introduction : anthropological knowledge making, the reflexive feedback loop, and conceptualizations of the soul / Katherine Swancutt And Mireille Mazard -- The algebra of souls : ontological multiplicity and the transformation of animism in southwest china / Mireille Mazard -- Recursivity and the self-reflexive cosmos : tricksters in Cuban and Brazilian spirit mediumship practices / Diana Espãrto Santo -- Spirit of the future : movement, kinetic distribution, and personhood among Siberian Eveny / Olga Ulturgasheva -- The art of capture : hidden jokes and the reinvention of animistic ontologies in Southwest China / Katherine Swancutt -- Narratives of the invisible : autobiography, kinship, and alterity in native Amazonia / Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Marc Brightman -- Technological animism : the uncanny personhood of humanoid machines / Kathleen Richardson -- Postscript : anthropologists and healers and radical empiricists / Edith Turner.…”
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Religion and Retributive Logic : Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf. by Cusack, Carole M., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Religion and Retributive Logic; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Tribute; In Memoriam; Part One: Melanesia; Jakarta and Jayapura: the Dialogue of Religions and 'Papua, Land of Peace'; Working Out of Two Mindsets: Critical Methodology and PNG Village Traditional Ways; A Samo Theology of Mediumship: A Case Study of Local Theologising and Global Reflection; Dema as Religious Symbol in Papua New Guinea; Cargo Cults and Cognitive Science: The Dynamics of Creativity and Repetition in the Pomio Kivung; Placing and Dis-Placing the Dead; Part Two: Ancient World.…”
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