Edité par München : AG SPAK-Bücher, 1995
ISBN 10 : 3923126999 ISBN 13 : 9783923126996
Vendeur : ACADEMIA Antiquariat an der Universität, Freiburg, Allemagne
Membre d'association : BOEV
Edition originale
Etat : Akzeptabel. 1. Aufl. 309 Seiten Lose Seiten in Kartonmappe. 1 Seite beschädigt, z. T. Seiten in anderer Farbe (kopiert?). Für den Gebrauch verwendbarer Zustand. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1.
Edité par White Lotus Co Ltd, thailand, 1997
ISBN 10 : 9748496724 ISBN 13 : 9789748496726
Vendeur : SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Thaïlande
Soft cover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 2nd Edition. Book Description: New, Bangkok 1997 rev. ed.; 366 pp., 48 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. Weight 0.620 Kgs. This study looks at the role of faith in Southeast Asian healing rituals and investigates the needs which created the underlying belief systems, Shamans, mediums, and healers monitoring trances and mediating between different states of consciousness for the purpose of healing. In 21 case studies, the reader will observe a Meo shaman riding into the spirit world, the God Rama descending into the body of an Indian worker, and a Malay bomoh balancing the "wind" of a client during a main puteri. A Thai-Malay bomoh is transformed into a tiger and Singapore-Malays behave like horses. The book documents how Thai, Hindu, Malay, as well as Chinese mediums, with the help of Hindu, Taoist and Buddhist deities, deified heroes, and nature spirits cure, exorcize, and advise their clients. The phenomena of automatic writing and glossolalia are also discussed. The book addresses, e.g., the following questions: Is the demand for spiritual guidance and help increasing or declining? Is the syncretism we find in modern belief systems strictly a theoretical issue which is of no importance to the participants in a ritual? And is shamanism an "elementary form of the religious life?" The book provides, furthermore, evidence for the needs which lead to the emergence of need-fulfillers wherever and whenever specific physiological, psychological, mental, social, and spiritual needs arise. Thus, when modern physicians, psychiatrists, and sometimes priests, do not seem to have an answer, folk practitioners continue to fulfill basic human needs in modern multi-ethnic and multi-religious societies.