Developing the dead : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo / / Diana Espírito Santo
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| Autore: |
Espirito Santo Diana
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| Titolo: |
Developing the dead : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo / / Diana Espírito Santo
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| Pubblicazione: | Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 299.6/897291 |
| Soggetto topico: | Santeria - Cuba |
| Black people - Cuba - Religion | |
| Spiritualism - Cuba | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Cuba Religion African influences |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Developing the dead |
| ISBN: | 0-8130-5085-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464061903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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