The Dynamic Cosmos - Movement, Paradox, Experimentation in Anthropology of Spirit

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.>

About the author

Diana Espírito Santo is Associate Professor in the Anthropology School 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.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Espírito Santo, Matan Shapiro
• Assisted by: Diana Espírito Santo (Editor), Bettina E. Schmidt (Editor), Matan Shapiro (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781350299368
• ISBN: 978-1-350-29936-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies; Bloomsbury Advances in Religio
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Spirituality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Spirituality & religious experience, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social and cultural anthropology, Spirituality and religious experience, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, ritual; othering; Pentecostal; Mormon