Developing the dead :
Espirito Santo, Diana,
Developing the dead : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo / Diana Espírito Santo. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Spirits at the crossroads of belief and pragmatism -- Spiritism and the place of the dead in Afro-Cuban religion -- On good mediumship: science, revolution, and legitimacy -- Encounter, selfhood, and multiplicity -- Development as cosmogony: ritual and materialization -- Epilogue: biographical intersections.
This book is the first sustained, deep ethnographic study of Espiritismo (Spiritism) in Cuba. In it, Espirito Santo examines in-depth the daily rhythms of how individual practitioners' experiences and conceptions of selfhood are shaped.
9780813055275 081305527X
22573/ctvwwgs05 JSTOR
Santeria--Cuba.
Blacks--Religion.--Cuba
Spiritualism--Cuba.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Spirituality--Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
Blacks--Religion.
Religion--African influences.
Santeria.
Spiritualism.
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
North & South American Religions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Cuba--Religion--African influences.
Cuba.
Electronic books.
BL2532.S3 / E87 2015eb
299.6/897291
Developing the dead : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo / Diana Espírito Santo. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Spirits at the crossroads of belief and pragmatism -- Spiritism and the place of the dead in Afro-Cuban religion -- On good mediumship: science, revolution, and legitimacy -- Encounter, selfhood, and multiplicity -- Development as cosmogony: ritual and materialization -- Epilogue: biographical intersections.
This book is the first sustained, deep ethnographic study of Espiritismo (Spiritism) in Cuba. In it, Espirito Santo examines in-depth the daily rhythms of how individual practitioners' experiences and conceptions of selfhood are shaped.
9780813055275 081305527X
22573/ctvwwgs05 JSTOR
Santeria--Cuba.
Blacks--Religion.--Cuba
Spiritualism--Cuba.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Spirituality--Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
Blacks--Religion.
Religion--African influences.
Santeria.
Spiritualism.
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
North & South American Religions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Cuba--Religion--African influences.
Cuba.
Electronic books.
BL2532.S3 / E87 2015eb
299.6/897291
