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The Divine and the Demonic - Supernatural Affliction and its Treatment in North India (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,661
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The Divine and the Demonic - Supernatural Affliction and its Treatment in North India (Hardcover): Graham Dwyer

The Divine and the Demonic - Supernatural Affliction and its Treatment in North India (Hardcover)

Graham Dwyer

Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion

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Based on fieldwork in the north Indian state of Rajasthan, this book focuses on supernatural affliction - illness and misfortune ascribed to demonic spirits or ghosts and to other mystical agents, such as sorcerers and witches. The study augments and extends the existing scholarship on a range of issues, including inter alia beliefs about spirit possession, sorcery, witchcraft and the evil eye. The themes of ritual practice, especially exorcism or healing ceremonies, Hindu priests and curers, popular Hinduism and pilgrimage are discussed, and the anthropology of South Asia is explored with an emphasis on medical anthropology and Indian ethnomedicine. At a theoretical level, the book sharply contrasts with much of the literature on spirit possession or on supernatural affliction and its treatment, as the author's phenomenological orientation involves movement away from psychological or psychiatric paradigms as well as from other forms of Western rationalism that have tended to dominate scholarly work. The book thus offers fresh insights, both in terms of understanding supernatural malaise and its treatment, and in terms of the application of the approach the author engages.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion
Release date: December 2002
First published: 2003
Authors: Graham Dwyer
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-29749-3
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal > Ghosts & poltergeists
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Occult studies > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Occult studies > General
Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal > Ghosts & poltergeists
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LSN: 0-415-29749-4
Barcode: 9780415297493

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