Summoning the Spirits : Possession and Invocation in Contemporary Religion (Paperback)

Introduction: Possession and Invocation in Contemporary Context ANDREW DAWSON Part One: Possessing the Present: Local Negotiations of Transnational Processes 1 Local Spirits/Multicultural Rituals: The Dynamics of Place and Identity in Vietnamese-American Spirit Possession Rituals KAREN FJELSTAD AND NGUYEN THI HIEN 2 Embodied Spirit(s) and Charismatic Power among Congolese Migrants in London DAVID GARBIN 3 Spirits and Slaves in Central Sudan SUSAN M. KENYON 4 Trance and Possession Practices in Diaspora Hindu Sites in East London ANN R. DAVID Part Two: Taking Possession of the Spirit: Relational Selves and Supernatural Others 5 Process, Personhood and Possession in Cuban Spiritism DIANA ESPIRITO SANTO 6 Embodiment and the Metaphysics of Virgin Birth in South India: A Case Study GILLIAN GOSLINGA 7 Ta(l)king Possession: Exchanging Words and Worlds among Charismatic Christians SIMON COLEMAN Part Three: Possession and Invocation in Late-Modern Contexts 8 Spirit, Self and Society in the Brazilian New Religion of Santo Daime ANDREW DAWSON 9 Imagining Spirit Possession: Mixing Traditions and Current Trends in the Japanese Manga Shaman King BIRGIT STAEMMLER 10 The Ontology of Good and Evil: Spirit Possession in Contemporary Witchcraft and Paganism DOUGLAS EZZY