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Spirits and Trance in Brazil: An Anthropology of Religious Experience

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Spirits and Trance in Brazil: An Anthropology of Religious Experience - Schmidt, Bettina E (Editor), and Sutcliffe, Steven (Editor), and Allocco, Amy (Editor)
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Bettina E. Schmidt explores experiences usually labelled as spirit possession, a highly contested and challenged term, using extensive ethnographic research conducted in S???o Paulo, the largest city in Brazil and home to a range of religions which practice spirit possession. The book is enriched by excerpts from interviews with people about their experiences. It focuses on spirit possession in Afro-Brazilian religions and spiritism, as well as discussing the notion of exorcism in Charismatic Christian communities. ...

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Spirits and Trance in Brazil: An Anthropology of Religious Experience 2017, Bloomsbury Academic, New York

ISBN-13: 9781350057920

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Spirits and Trance in Brazil: An Anthropology of Religious Experience 2016, Bloomsbury Academic, New York

ISBN-13: 9781474255677

Hardcover