Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. List of Illustrations IX
4. Foreword XI
5. 1 Discerning Spirit Possessions 1
6. Part I. Current Constellations of Spirit Possession Concepts
7. 2 Reflecting on the Vocabulary of “Possession” in a South Indian Context 53
8. 3 “Incorporation Does Not Exist” 75
9. 4 “Figures of Return” 93
10. 5 Ideas about Spirit Possession and Anti-Devil Practices in the Religious Life of Some Eastern Hungarian Communities 111
11. 6 The Indigeneity of Spirit Possession 193
12. Part II. Transitions and Thresholds of Change in Possession Concepts and Practices
13. 7 Specter, Phantom, Demon 215
14. 8 From Loudun to Dakar, and Back 229
15. 9 Devil Possession in the Liturgy around the Tenth and Twelfth Centuries 247
16. 10 East European Christian Prayers against Hailstorms 263
17. 11 The Nightmare in Early Modern England 279
18. Part III. Interactive Transformations of Popular and Official Possession Idioms and Practices
19. 12 Spirit (rwḥ) in the Dead Sea Scrolls 299
20. 13 Domesticating the Dead 313
21. 14 Demonic Possession in Orthodox Imperial Russia 323
22. 15 The Healing of the Possessed in Medieval Canonization Processes 343
23. 16 The Sabbat of the Soul 361
24. 17 Ideas of Possession in Eighteenth- Century Hungarian Clerical Thought 373
25. Part IV. Possession and Social Reality: Possession as Indigenous Historiography
26. 18 Possession, Communication and Power in Himachal Pradesh (North India) 393
27. 19 A Day-to-Day Family Chronicle with “Personages” in Madagascar 415
28. 20 Anthropological Spirits and Colonial Consciousness in Arabic- Speaking Sudan 431
29. 21 From Illness to Trance 455
30. 22 On Spirit Possession and Some Parallels with Reincarnation 487
31. Contributors 505
32. Name Index 515
33. Subject Index 524
34. Geographical Index 538