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Mind Possessed

Name: Mind Possessed
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by Cohen, Emma E. A. (Research Assistant, Centre for Cognition and Culture, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford)

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 2007
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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, nothern 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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Alternative belief systems

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Full title: Mind Possessed
Subtitle: The Cognition of Spirit Possession in an Afro-Brazilian Religious Tradition
Author: Cohen, Emma E. A. (Research Assistant, Centre for Cognition and Culture, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford)
Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 256
EAN: 9780195323351
ISBN: 0195323351
ID: 04517602
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Weight: 524 g
Dimensions: 240 × 158 × 27 mm
Date of publishing: 23. August 2007