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Making spirits : materiality and transcendence in contemporary religions
- Title
- Making spirits : materiality and transcendence in contemporary religions / edited by Diana Espirito Santo and Nico Tassi.
- Publication
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013.
- ©2013
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 260 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Series Statement
- Library of modern religion ; 20
- Uniform Title
- Library of modern religion ; 20.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Diana Espirito Santo and Nico Tassi -- Part I. Spirits in the making. Materiality, cosmogony and presence among Cuban spirits and mediums / Diana Espirito Santo -- Conchas, candles and flowers in the creation of the Concheros' religiosity / Susanna Rostas -- 'We worship nature' : the given and the made in Brazilian Candomblé / Roger Sansi -- Part II. Transformations. Knowing what has been done : the techniques of ritual 'objects' among the Abelam (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea) / Ludovic Coupaye -- Objects, bodies and gods : a cognitive ethnography of an ontological dynamic in the Xangô cult (Recife-Brazil) / Arnaud Halloy -- Divinity and experiment : conversion in a Japanese jam jar / Philip Swift -- Part III. Matter and spiritual power. Things we grow with : spirits, matter and bodies in La Paz, Bolivia / Nico Tassi -- Forms of fetishism in Kinshasa : historical insights and contemporary practices / Joe Trapido -- Making matter matter : the Santo Daime ritual of feitio / Andrew Dawson.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-5012
- ISBN
- 9781848857964
- 1848857969
- LCCN
- 2013454205
- OCLC
- 819521228
- Title
- Making spirits : materiality and transcendence in contemporary religions / edited by Diana Espirito Santo and Nico Tassi.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Library of modern religion ; 20Library of modern religion ; 20.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Espirito Santo, Diana, editor.Tassi, Nico, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-5012