Developing the dead : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo /
Espirito Santo, Diana,
Developing the dead : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo / Diana Espírito Santo. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Spirits at the crossroads of belief and pragmatism -- Spiritism and the place of the dead in Afro-Cuban religion -- On good mediumship: science, revolution, and legitimacy -- Encounter, selfhood, and multiplicity -- Development as cosmogony: ritual and materialization -- Epilogue: biographical intersections.
This book is the first sustained, deep ethnographic study of Espiritismo (Spiritism) in Cuba. In it, Espirito Santo examines in-depth the daily rhythms of how individual practitioners' experiences and conceptions of selfhood are shaped.
English.
9780813055275 (electronic bk.) 081305527X (electronic bk.) 0813050855 9780813050850
22573/ctvwwgs05 JSTOR
Santeria--Cuba.
Black people--Religion.--Cuba
Spiritualism--Cuba.
Santeria (Culte)--Cuba.
Spiritisme--Cuba.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Spirituality--Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--General.
Black people--Religion.
Religion--African influences.
Santeria.
Spiritualism.
Cuba--Religion--African influences.
Cuba--Religion--Influence africaine.
Cuba.
Electronic books.
BL2532.S3 / E87 2015eb
299.6/897291
Developing the dead : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo / Diana Espírito Santo. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Spirits at the crossroads of belief and pragmatism -- Spiritism and the place of the dead in Afro-Cuban religion -- On good mediumship: science, revolution, and legitimacy -- Encounter, selfhood, and multiplicity -- Development as cosmogony: ritual and materialization -- Epilogue: biographical intersections.
This book is the first sustained, deep ethnographic study of Espiritismo (Spiritism) in Cuba. In it, Espirito Santo examines in-depth the daily rhythms of how individual practitioners' experiences and conceptions of selfhood are shaped.
English.
9780813055275 (electronic bk.) 081305527X (electronic bk.) 0813050855 9780813050850
22573/ctvwwgs05 JSTOR
Santeria--Cuba.
Black people--Religion.--Cuba
Spiritualism--Cuba.
Santeria (Culte)--Cuba.
Spiritisme--Cuba.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Spirituality--Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--General.
Black people--Religion.
Religion--African influences.
Santeria.
Spiritualism.
Cuba--Religion--African influences.
Cuba--Religion--Influence africaine.
Cuba.
Electronic books.
BL2532.S3 / E87 2015eb
299.6/897291