Communicating with the Spirits /

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 and for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical arche...

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Další autoři: Pócs, Éva (Editor), Klaniczay, Gábor (Editor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2005.
Edice:Demons, spirits, witches ; v. 1.
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=126831
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Shrnutí: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 and for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation -- trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.
Popis jednotky:Includes index.
Fyzický popis:1 online resource (1 volume)
ISBN:142371749X
9781423717492
9789637326134
9637326138
6155053561
9786155053566