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The Mind Possessed - The Cognition of Spirit Possession in an Afro-Brazilian Religious Tradition (Paperback)
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The Mind Possessed - The Cognition of Spirit Possession in an Afro-Brazilian Religious Tradition (Paperback)
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The cognitive science of religion has made a persuasive case for
the view that a number of different psychological systems are
involved in the construction and transmission of notions of
extranatural agency such as deities and spirits. Until now this
work has been based largely on findings in experimental psychology,
illustrated mainly with hypothetical or anecdotal examples. In The
Mind Possessed, Emma Cohen considers how the psychological systems
undergirding spirit concepts are activated in real-world settings.
Spirit possession practices have long had a magnetizing effect on
academic researchers but there have been few, if any, satisfactory
theoretical treatments of spirit possession that attempt to account
for its emergence and spread globally. Drawing on ethnographic data
collected during eighteen months of fieldwork in Belem, northern
Brazil, Cohen combines fine-grained descriptions and analyses of
mediumistic activities in an Afro-Brazilian cult house with a
scientifically-grounded explanation for the emergence and spread of
ideas about spirits, possession and healing.
Cohen shows why spirit possession and its associated activities are
inherently attention-grabbing. Making a radical departure from
traditional anthropological, medicalist, and sociological analyses,
she argues that a cognitive approach offers more precise and
testable hypotheses concerning the spread and appeal of spirit
concepts and possession activities.
This timely book presents new lines of enquiry for the cognitive
science of religion (a rapidly growing field of interdisciplinary
scholarship) and challenges the theoretical frameworks within which
spirit possession practices have traditionally been understood.
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