Spirit & Demon Possession. Academic Overview

#demon #exorcism #possession

What’s the difference between spirit possession and demonic possession? How can we identify or classify a demon? How is trance different from possession and can there be a non-religious form of possession?

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REFERENCES

Boddy, J. (1994) Spirit Possession Revisited: Beyond Instrumentality. Annual Review of Anthropology, 23 (1), pp.407–434.

Cohen, E. (2008) What is Spirit Possession? Defining, Comparing, and Explaining Two Possession Forms. Ethnos, 73 (1), pp.101–126.

Cohen, E. & Barrett, J.L. (2008) Conceptualizing Spirit Possession: Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence. Ethos, 36 (2), pp.246–267.

Crapanzano, V. (2005), ‘Spirit possession: an overview’, in L. Jones (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Religion (2nd ed). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 8687–94.

Schmidt, B.E. (2016) Spirits and Trance in Brazil: An Anthropology of Religious Experience. Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Published on October 24, 2021

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