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Domestic Demons and the Intimate Uncanny (Hardcover)
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Domestic Demons and the Intimate Uncanny (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
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This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating
to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and
the uncanny, probing into their effects on people's domestic and
intimate spheres of life. The chapters examine the uncanny in a
cross-cultural manner, involving empirically rich case studies from
sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Europe. They use an
interdisciplinary and comparative approach to show how people are
affected by their intimate interactions with spiritual beings.
While several chapters focus on the tensions between public and
private spheres that emerge in the context of spiritual encounters,
others explore what kind of relationships between humans and
demonic entities are imagined to exist and in what ways these
imaginations can be interpreted as a commentary on people's
concerns and social realities. Offering a critical look at a form
of spiritual experience that often lacks academic examination, this
book will be of great use to scholars of Religious Studies who are
interested in the occult and paranormal, as well as academics
working in Anthropology, Sociology, African Studies, Latin American
Studies, Gender Studies and Transcultural Psychology.
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