Communicating with the Spirits - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9637326138 ISBN 13 : 9789637326134

Editeur : Central European University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation--trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.Recognized historians and ethnologists analyze the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. The essays address links between rites and beliefs, folklore and literature; the legacy of various pre-Christian mythologies; the syncretic forms of ancient, medieval and modern belief- and rite-systems; "pure" examples from religious-ethnological research outside Europe to elucidate European problems.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Éva Pócs is Professor emeritus at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs, Hungary. Gábor Klaniczay is University Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Central European University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9637326138
• ISBN 13: 9789637326134
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 297
• Éditeur: Klaniczay Gábor, Pócs Éva
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