A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
Combines ethnography in an Afro-Brazilian religious community with cognitive-science proposals about how spirit concepts, possession, and healing practices become compelling and transmissible.
Good starting place if…
You want a non-Christian, fieldwork-based account that takes possession practices seriously as lived cultural phenomena.
Know before you begin…
Its cognitive approach offers an explanation of how spirit concepts spread; it should not be used to reduce participants to symptoms or to decide the ontology of their tradition.