TY - BOOK AU - Espirito Santo,Diana TI - Developing the dead: mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo SN - 9780813055275 AV - BL2532.S3 E87 2015eb U1 - 299.6/897291 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - Santeria KW - Cuba KW - Black people KW - Religion KW - Spiritualism KW - Santeria (Culte) KW - Spiritisme KW - Personnes noires KW - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT KW - Spirituality KW - Paganism & Neo-Paganism KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION KW - Comparative Religion KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - General KW - fast KW - African influences KW - Influence africaine KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=879242 ER -