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Document Type: | Book |
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Ioan M Lewis |
ISBN: | 0415301246 9780415301244 9780415305082 041530508X |
OCLC Number: | 265031156 |
Description: | XXIV, 200 Seiten |
Contents: | Towards a sociology of ecstasy; trance and possession; affliction and its apotheosis; strategies of mystical attack - protest and its containment; possession and public morality - other cosmological systems; possession and psychiatry. |
Responsibility: | I.M. Lewis. |
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'Well presented and ingeniously argued...in this excellent book there is much that is lively, sometimes even comic. Not only is Ecstatic Religion well written and lucid, but it states a case with vigour and is quite devoid of jargon.' - Times Literary Supplement on Ecstatic Religion: First Edition.'This book is a fascinating study of the subkject from a variety of view points ... the author writes with intelligent insight and offers some thought-provoking questions.' Read more...
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