Communicating with the Spirits (Demons, Spirits and Witches, Vol. 1) (Demons, Spirits, Witches) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9637326138 ISBN 13: 9789637326134

Publisher: Central European University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation―trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.Recognized historians and ethnologists analyze the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. The essays address links between rites and beliefs, folklore and literature; the legacy of various pre-Christian mythologies; the syncretic forms of ancient, medieval and modern belief- and rite-systems; "pure" examples from religious-ethnological research outside Europe to elucidate European problems.

About this edition

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 9637326138
• ISBN 13: 9789637326134
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Gabor Klaniczay, Eva Pocs