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Ecstatic religion : a study of shamanism and spirit possession

Author: I M Lewis
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 3rd edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: I M Lewis
ISBN: 041530508X 9780415305082 0415301246 9780415301244
OCLC Number: 50477084
Description: xxiv, 200 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Towards a sociology of ecstasy --
2. Trance and possession --
3. Affliction and its apotheosis --
4. Strategies of mystical attack: protest and its containment --
5. Possession and public morality: I. ancestor cults --
6. Possession and public morality: II. Other cosmological systems --
7. Possession and psychiatry.
Responsibility: I.M. Lewis.
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