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Pantaleoni, David Armstrong. "High spirited: spirit-work in contemporary China." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1719.

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The People's Republic of China is home to numerous beliefs, practices, and customs dating back hundreds, if not thousands of years. In the time since the death of Mao Zedong, many practices have been revived, including the practice of spirit possession. Through careful examination of books, articles, videos, and other sources, I have come to the conclusion that individuals now capable of being possessed in China are a break from previously documented spirit-mediums, nor do they fit into the category termed `shamans' best defined by Mircea Eliade and I.M. Lewis. These individual are heirs to a

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Shilubane, Paul Xilavi. "The nature and implications of spirit possession among the Tsonga." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2395.

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Ncozana, Silas Samuel. "Spirit possession and Tumbuka Christians 1875-1950." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328726.

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Amusan, Samuel. "Music and spirit possession in Yorùbá worship." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/music-and-spirit-possession-in-yoraba-worship(a1241239-d079-4b2c-aac5-15889fc2a11a).html.

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This is a study of the relationship between music and spirit possession among the Yorùbá of the South-Western part of Nigeria. Through the ages, philosophers and scholars have been interested in the relationship between music and trance possession, especially the question of whether music triggers, influences or sustains trance or spirit possession, and if so, how. This thesis seeks to focus on the relationship between the music used in worship practices where possessions take place, and how the music might initiate and drive the possession states. Spirit possession is a phenomenon which spr

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Frimpong, Emmanuel Kwabena. "Mark and spirit possession in an African context." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2006. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2342/.

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The Gospel of Mark is a moving story especially when one looks at the way Mark recounts Jesus’ struggle with evil, the extent of the power and the fate of Satan and demons and the type of life the followers of Jesus are to lead: whether a demon-free life or a life of struggle with demons; and how scholars interpret Mark’s views today. This thesis begins with a review of a debate between J.M. Robinson and E. Best who hold divergent views on Jesus’ struggle with evil and the extent and the fate of Satan’s power and demons in Mark. This is followed by a critical analysis of Mark’s views on the ba

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Kontarakis, C. "Muslims possessed : spirit possession and Islam in Cairo." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1463634/.

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In Cairo, infidel spirits called jinns threaten to possess Muslims with weak souls, a weakness that is deemed to be closely connected with lack of faith and morality. An informal group of Muslims called sheikhs exorcise the invading spirits, and in doing so help to constitute the discursive logic underlying spirit possession in Cairo. Through a ritual that asserts the centrality and supremacy of God, the sheikhs reinstate God’s presence by reciting the Qur’an in order to exorcise the jinns out of the Muslims’ bodies. Based on the findings of a fifteen month fieldwork research in Cairo (2007-20

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Keene, Liam. "Invoking heterogeneous cultural identities through Thokoza sangoma spirit possession." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12838.

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Staemmler, Birgit. "Chinkon kishin mediated spirit possession in Japanese new religions." Berlin Münster Lit, 2002. http://d-nb.info/992752477/04.

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Maraire, Dumisani. "The position of music in Shona mudzimu (ancestral spirit) possession /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11274.

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Meveni, Siphiwo Douglas. "Spirit possession and social panic: Amakhosi possession and behaviour among learners in selected schools in Mdantsane Township." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1018564.

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This research sought to investigate the phenomenon of strange behaviour related to spirit possession called amakhosi in Mdantsane Township in East London in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. This spirit phenomenon has recently been prevalent in Township schools in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces where school children were said to be possessed by a spirit which caused them to demonstrate a strange kind of destructive behaviour. These occurrences were also reported in the newspapers and community radio stations. All these media communications reported that teachers, parents and c

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Honwana, Alcinda Maria Rodolfo Manuel. "Spiritual agency & self-renewal in southern Mozambique." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360714.

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Werth, Megan Renee. "Spirit Possession: Exploring the Role of the Textual Tradition in Islam." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1334615227.

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Goblirsch, Jack Price. "Innovative ethnography in the study of spirit possession in South Asia." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5480.

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The study of possession phenomena in South Asia presents a unique set of challenges for scholars. Because of its occurrence within diverse contexts, from healing temples and ritual performances to festival celebrations and devotional practices, attempts on the part of scholars to hone in on a concise vocabulary and conceptual framework with which to articulate the critical nature and function of possession has resulted in an extensive body of literature with wide-ranging methodological and theoretical dispositions. Each of these approaches, in its own way, contributes to an increasingly compli

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Burrow-Branine, Jonathan. "The practice of Holy Spirit possession: Experiencing God in three pentecostal communities." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/3471.

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This thesis seeks to analyze Holy Spirit possession in Pentecostal communities through case studies in Jamaica, Ghana and Papua New Guinea. This study will contribute to the comparative concerns of the growing subfield of the anthropology of Christianity as well as address the lack of in-depth studies of Pentecostal rituals in the anthropological study of Pentecostalism. It is argued that the traditional anthropological study of spirit possession, while showing the similarity of possession phenomena among institutional and traditional religions, is somewhat limited by privileging either explan

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Makris, Gerasimos. "Social change, religion, and spirit possession : The Tumbura cult on the sudan." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503463.

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Stewart, E. E. A. "The cognitive foundations of spirit possession in an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419417.

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Halder, Florence. "Entre possession et folie, soins religieux et psychiatriques : itinéraires thérapeutiques en Inde du Nord (Jharkhand)." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOU20114.

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Cette thèse porte sur l’itinéraire thérapeutique des personnes qui se pensent possédées par un esprit maléfique ou une divinité à travers les différentes thérapies disponibles à Kanke, ville du nord de l’Inde. Trois hôpitaux psychiatriques, construits à l’époque coloniale, s’y concentrent. Depuis quelques décennies un dargah, sanctuaire musulman, a été construit sur les terres-mêmes de l’un d’entre eux. Il est spécialisé dans le traitement des personnes possédées, tout comme les bhaktain, dévotes possédées par des divinités qui officient à leur domicile. Le travail de terrain a été réalisé dan

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Brockman, Brittany. "Spirit Possession, Exorcism, and the Power of Women in the Mid-Heian Period." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1338405581.

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Feriali, Kamal. "Music-induced spirit possession trance in Morocco implications for anthropology and allied disciplines /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0024654.

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Grossklaus, Michael [Verfasser]. "Free Church Pastors in Germany – Perceptions of Spirit Possession and Mental Illness / Michael Grossklaus." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1136248331/34.

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Großklaus, Michael [Verfasser]. "Free Church Pastors in Germany – Perceptions of Spirit Possession and Mental Illness / Michael Grossklaus." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-201707024187.

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Stafford-Walter, Courtney Rose. "The sickness : sociality, schooling, and spirit possession amongst Amerindian youth in the savannahs of Guyana." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15549.

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The goal of this thesis is to explore the recent changes in the social landscape of a Wapishana village, due to long-term separation from kin. I consider the impact of a recent educational shift from small scale community based education to regional boarding schools on family life and community structure amongst Amerindian people in the hinterland of Region 9, Guyana. Furthermore, the project analyzes an emergent form of spirit possession that affects almost exclusively young women who live in the dormitories, locally referred to as the sickness. Using the sickness as an analytical lens, the t

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Nicolau, Pares Luis. "The phenomenology of spirit possession in the Tambor de Mina : an ethnographic and audio-visual study." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286260.

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Von, Maltitz Emil Arthur. "Occult forces -- lived identities: witchcraft, spirit possession and cosmology amongst the Mayeyi of Namibia's Caprivi Strip." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013279.

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Around Africa there seems to be an increasing disillusion with 'development', seen under the rubric of teleological 'progress', which is touted by post-colonial governments as being the cure for Africa's ailments and woes. Numerous authors have pointed out that this local disillusion, and the attempt to manage the inequities that arise through development and modernity, can be seen to be understood and acted upon by local peoples through the idiom of witchcraft beliefs and fears (see Geschiere & Fisiy 2001; Geschiere 1997; Nyamnjoh 2001; Comaroff & Comaroff 1993; Ashforth 2005) and spirit poss

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Wastiau, Boris. "Mahamba : the transforming arts of spirit possession among the Luvale-speaking people of the upper Zambezi." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53659967.html.

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Rossé, Elisabeth. "Ancestralité et migrations urbaines : le cas des Tandroy de Toliara (Madagascar)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100074.

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Cette thèse traite de la manière dont les Tandroy, population originaire de l’extrême Sud de Madagascar, produisent leurs identités collectives en situation de migration urbaine dans la ville de Toliara. Les Tandroy, qui vivent depuis près d’un siècle en situation de circulation à travers l’île, sont le plus souvent assignés à un statut de migrants précaires, pour lesquels la ville demeure un espace étranger. Je montre, à travers une ethnographie de situations rituelles, comment cet état de la migration peut être considéré comme un espace de transition, dans lequel se joue le passage d’un état

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Schmidt, Lauren Noelle. "East Asian Fox Legends: Read at Your Own Risk, Possession Possible." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1290465314.

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Goslinga, Gillian Marie. "The ethnography of a South Indian god : virgin birth, spirit possession, and the prose of the modern world /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Goslinga-Roy, Gillian. "The ethnography of a South Indian god : virgin birth, spirit possession, and the prose of the modern world /." Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Harvey-Wilson, Simon B. "Human levitation." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2005. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/642.

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Human levitation occurs when the physical body rises into the air and then hovers or moves around, seemingly in defiance of the force of gravity. Traditionally most levitation reports have originated from seven groups: shamanism, people supposedly possessed by demonic spiritual entities, those subjected to poltergeist activity, Spiritualism, people who believe they have been abducted by aliens, martial arts such as qigong and mysticism. These anecdotal reports generally describe levitation as rare, spontaneous and involuntary, although some people seem able to levitate at will. So far almost n

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Wood, Matthew R. "Spirit possession in a contemporary British religious network : a critique of New Age movement studies through the sociology of power." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11874/.

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Studies of phenomena classed as part of the New Age Movement have become increasingly common in recent years. This Thesis develops a new perspective on these through the use of anthropological and sociological analysis of structures of social power and the contextualisation of symbols and discourse. Research was based on a two and a half year ethnographic study of a network in Nottinghamshire, Britain, which included a meditation group and a spiritual fair. Spirit possession was seen as particularly important to these, in the forms of channelling and mediumship. The concept of nonformative spi

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Bellezza, John Vincent. "Invocation, possession and rejuvenation in Upper Tibet : the beliefs, activities and lives of spirit-mediums residing in the Highest Land." Thesis, University of Kent, 2018. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/67422/.

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This dissertation comprehensively examines the hereditary links, ritual practices and pantheon of indigenous deities on which the spirit-mediums of Upper Tibet rely. Known as lha-pa, dpa' bo and lhamo, these specialists in channeling the gods operate in the overlapping Stod and Byang-thang regions of western and midwestern Tibet. This work is based on in-depth interviews and the translation of a variety of Tibetan texts. It utilizes a diachronic model to explicate ethnohistorical dimensions as well as legendary and contemporary aspects of the spirit-mediums through both oral and literary sourc

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Mungadze, Jerry Jesphat. "A Descriptive Study of a Native African Mental Health Problem Known in Zimbabwe as zvirwere zvechivanhu." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332278/.

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This is a study conducted in Zimbabwe which compared a group of 50 zvirvere zvechivanhu patients and a group of 50 non-patients in age, sex, marital status, level of education and claims of spirit possession. Claims of spirit possessions and types of spirits, as pointed out by Bennel (1982), were used as symptoms of zvirwere zvechivanhu. The two groups were also compared in symptom dimensions of the SCL-90-R used in the study. The SCL-90-R, developed by Derogatis (1975), is a 90-item symptom check list used to screen people for psychological problems reflected in the nine symptom dimensions of

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Malia, Linda M. "One little word rethinking a place for deliverance and exorcism within the church's healing ministry /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Sörman, Linnea. "”Fought by two oppositions” : Om andebesättelse och rörelse mellan gränser i en kenyansk evangelisk församling." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-134162.

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De praktiker och föreställningar som hör samma med den magiska verkligheten under etiketten ”witchcraft” verkar öka i popularitet i dagens Afrika. Medan vissa postmoderna antropologer har tolkat fenomenet som en kritisk kommentar mot moderniseringsprocesser är det troligt att föreställningen om den magiska verkligheten kan göra anspråk på fler uttryck än så. Syftet med den här undersökningen är att analysera hur informanternas syn på andebesättelse i en Luo-dominerad kristen evangelisk församling i Kibera, kan tolkas utifrån vissa ekonomiska, sociala och kulturella processer. Jag undersöker hu

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Davhula, Mudzunga Junniah. "Malombo Musical Art in VhaVenda Indigenous Healing Practices." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64353.

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The traditional healing practices of the Vhavenda people include one very important component, the malombo ritual healing practice. This healing practice has been conducted for centuries. It involves the use of music (including singing and the use of drums and shakers for rhythm), dance and elements of theatre performed by the person to be healed, the healer, invited malombe (community members who have been through the same ritual), as well as family members and supporters. The importance of this ritual as a healing process has long been acknowledged. Of interest in this study, however

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Danowski, Christopher. "The medium and the message : Afro-Cuban trance and Western theatrical performance." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/9512.

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The Medium and the Message investigates the incorporation of Afro-Cuban trance techniques in Western theatrical performance. Through art practice and research, I am asking two questions: how do performers, trained in Western theatrical contexts, articulate their experience with Afro-Cuban trance techniques? And how can my research methodologies illuminate the inherent intercultural tensions in ways that are productive for performance practitioners and theorists? To answer these questions, I created four new works of theatrical performance where I developed a method for performers, utilizing Af

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Stotzer, Talhy. "Photography and the medium : a photographic dialogue in China." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/598.

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Using documentary photography with an ethnographic approach, this practice-ledbresearch project focuses on a case study of a Han-Chinese woman called Zai yu who practices mediumship in urban China. It aims to explore the relationships between herbmediumship practice and the medium of photography. During a mediumship session, a spirit is represented as temporarily displacing the agency of the medium by entering his/her body and causing a change of identity. For the duration of the episode, the spirit can potentially provide access to divine powers and knowledge in order to counsel and to heal.

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Perdomo, Alvarado Marcella Maria. ""Tu seras buyei". Le devoir de s'initier au Dügü, un culte de possession des Garifunas du Honduras." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0020.

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Le Dügü est un culte de possession pratiqué par les Garifunas, un peuple afroamérindien originaire de l’île de Saint-Vincent, située dans les petites Antilles. Suite à leur déportation en masse vers l’Amérique Centrale par la Couronne britannique en 1797, aujourd’hui, les Garifunas constituent un peuple homogène et transnational répandu sur le littoral atlantique de l’Amérique Centrale. À la différence de la majorité des cultes afro-américains qui abritent pour la plupart un panthéon peuplé de divinités africaines, le Dügü est le domaine des esprits des parents défunts ascendants : les hiuruha

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Hamrin-Dahl, Tina. "Tenshō-kōtai-jingū-kyō och karmakampen : En dōjō i Honolulu med besatthetsandar, häxeriföreställningar och transdans." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-156640.

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In 1952 a pro-Japanese group in Hawai'i became the religious movement Tenshō-Kōtai-Jingū-kyō, after the arrival of Sayo Kitamura, a charismatic woman from Japan called Ōgamisama. Her teaching was filled with traditional elements, and Japanese imperialism acquired a new form, and became a spiritual world – a world filled with spirits in need of redemption. To dance in an ego-free state and redeem the evil spirits was a goal for her followers, who learnt how to perform the ecstasy dance and to achieve an altered state of consciousness. Some families, though, were suspected of being carriers of e

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Esposito, La Rossa Maurizio. "L'or et l'argent : identifications dynastiques et relations hiérarchiques dans les royautés sakalava de Madagascar." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0159.

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L’histoire est souvent racontée par les vainqueurs. Même lorsqu’il s’agit de l’histoire des vaincus, ce sont ou bien les vainqueurs qui la rapportent, ou bien les vaincus survivants assis sur le trône des vainqueurs qui la relatent. Tel est le cas de l’histoire des Zafinifotsy, des « descendants de l’argent », auxquels cette étude est consacrée. Identifiés par une tradition historiographique comme étant une branche dynastique mineure sakalava, vaincue par les « descendants de l’or », ces descendants de l’argent auraient fondé un nouveau royaume dans le nord de Madagascar au milieu du XVIIIe si

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Roberts, Corey Justin. "Consuming Brazil: Afro Brazilian Religion as a Base for Actor Training." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1023.

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Actor training, like the theatre in Brazil, has historically been a middle and upper class pursuit that followed European models, namely Stanislavski's system. Yet within Brazil there is a wealth of diverse cultures that are inherently theatrical and well suited for application in actor training. In this study I explore one such culture, the Afro Brazilian religion Umbanda. First, I examine its formation to illuminate how the religion itself performed (or served as a site for cultural interaction) throughout history. Then, I explore the practice of the religion both apart from and in relat

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Day, Sophie. "Embodying spirits village oracles and possession ritual in Ladakh, North India /." Thesis, Boston Spa, U.K. : British Library Document Supply Centre, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.318353.

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Ventimiglia, Andrew. "Spirited Possessions| Media and Intellectual Property in the American Spiritual Marketplace." Thesis, University of California, Davis, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10036192.

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<p> This dissertation explores the role that intellectual property law plays as it influences the circulation and use of religious goods in contemporary religious organizations in the United States. The coherence of many modern spiritual communities no longer lies in a centralized institution like the church but instead in a shared dedication to sacred texts and other religious media. Thus, intellectual property law has become an effective means to administer the ephemeral beliefs and practices mediated by these texts. I explore a number of cases to demonstrate how intellectual property law ca

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Määttä, Maarit. "Strange Spirits : – Possession and the queering of gender and other social positions in Yuan Mei’s Zibuyu." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-411564.

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This thesis explores a Qing dynasty collection of stories about ghosts and other strange events written by Yuan Mei (1716–1798). The thesis focuses on a number of stories about possession of living persons by spirits, which are studied with the help of Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology. By studying stories in which the living and the dead and men and women’s identities overlap while they are possessed, we gain greater understanding about hierarchical relations during Qing dynasty, and how these stories both support and question these.<br>Uppsatsen studerar en samling av berättelser om spöken oc

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GATTI, MARZIO. "Possessione e strategie di potere nelle Igrejas Zione a Maputo." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/30819.

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Questa ricerca si basa sullo studio delle chiese /zione/ nella capitale del Mozambico, Maputo. La particolarità di questi profili religiosi è l'aver introdotto, su una base "cristiana pentecostale", elementi legati alla tradizione religiosa locale.Le chiese /zione/ fanno parte delle /AICs/ (/African/ /Indipendent/ /Churches/) e studi recenti concordano sul fatto che il loro crescente successo sta soprattutto nell'enfasi che pongono nella guarigione divina, nella protezione e nella liberazione dalle forze del male. Inoltre la ricerca vuole porre attenzione alle credenze religiose locali come

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Kuecker, Aaron J. "The Spirit and the 'other' : social identity, ethnicity and intergroup reconciliation in Luke-Acts." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/532.

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Bruni, Silvia. "Riti femminili a Meknes. Le figlie e i "figli" di Lalla Malika." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3421963.

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In Morocco the term m'allmat means “female craft masters”, but in Meknes it has come to indicate more specifically musical groups of women and sometimes effeminate men as well. They main role provide musical performances for the various rites practiced by women, and especially in the rites of female spirit evocation and possession. The main spirit is Lalla Malika (“lady queen”). In Meknes the cult devoted to her is particularly important, and special rituals are celebrated in her honor in which women and effeminate men play and dance. The m'allmat officiate these rituals. The inquiry dra

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Ha, Jaesung. "Liberation from the demon and the demonic critical analysis of women's experience in spirit possession /." Diss., 2006. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-03282006-100109/.

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Sorensen, Eric R. "The temple of God, the house of the unclean spirit : possession and exorcism in the New Testament and early Christianity /." 2001. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3029539.

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