Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asia
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8120833724, 9788120833722
Length
xxvii+701p., Bibliography; Index
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This book, winner of CHOICE outstanding Academic Title Award 2007, is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years. In South ...
