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Developing the dead mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo
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Title
Developing the dead [electronic resource] : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo / Diana Espírito Santo.
ISBN
081305527X
9780813055275
0813060788
9780813060781
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Summary
This book is the first sustained, deep ethnographic study of Espiritismo (Spiritism) in Cuba. In it, Espirito Santo examines in-depth the daily rhythms of how individual practitioners' experiences and conceptions of selfhood are shaped.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Global Cultural Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 15, 2015
Contents
Spirits at the crossroads of belief and pragmatism
Spiritism and the place of the dead in Afro-Cuban religion
On good mediumship: science, revolution, and legitimacy
Encounter, selfhood, and multiplicity
Development as cosmogony: ritual and materialization
Epilogue: biographical intersections.
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