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

• Autore: Espirito Santo Diana
• 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
• 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.: 9910788273003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II