Developing the dead : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo / Diana Espírito Santo.

By:

Espirito Santo, Diana [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813055275
081305527X
0813050855
9780813050850

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Developing the deadDDC classification:

299.6/897291 23

LOC classification:

BL2532.S3 E87 2015eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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