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Developing the dead : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo / Diana Espírito Santo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813055275
  • 081305527X
  • 0813050855
  • 9780813050850
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Developing the deadDDC classification:
  • 299.6/897291 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2532.S3 E87 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)879242

Print version record.

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.

English.