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1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Trance mediums and new media / Heike Behrend and Martin Zillinger -- On the subject of spirit mediumship in the age of new media / Rosalind C. Morris -- Trance mediums and new media: the heritage of a European term / Erhard Schüttpelz -- Absence and the mediation of the audiovisual unconscious / Martin Zillinger -- New media and traveling spirits: pentecostals in the Vietnamese diaspora and the disaster of the Titanic / Gertrud Hüwelmeier -- Numinous dress/iconic costume: Korean shamans dressed for the gods and for the camera / Laurel Kendall -- Rites of reception: mass-mediated trance and public order in Morocco / Emilio Spadola -- Media and manifestation: the aesthetics and politics of plenitude in central India / Christopher Pinney -- Media transformations: music, goddess embodiment, and politics in western Orissa/India / Lidia Guzy -- Transmitting divine grace: on the materiality of charismatic mediation in Mali / Dorothea E. Schulz -- Spaces of refusal: photophobic spirits and the technical medium of photography / Heike Behrend -- "Look with your own eyes!": visualizations of spirit mediums and their viewing techniques in Tanzanian video films / Claudia Böhme -- Possession play: on cinema, reenactment, and trance in the Cologne tribes / Anja Dreschke -- Trance techniques, cinema, and cybernetics / Ute Holl |
| Summary |
Ongoing debates about the 'return of religion' have paid little attention to the orgiastic and enthusiastic qualities of religiosity, despite a significant increase in the use of techniques of trance and possession around the globe. Likewise, research on religion and media has neglected the fact that historically the rise of mediumship and spirit possession was closely linked to the development of new media of communication. This innovative volume brings together a wide range of ethnographic studies on local spiritual and media practices. Recognizing that processes of globalization are shaped by mass mediation, the volume raises questions such as: How are media like photography, cinema, video, the telephone, or television integrated in seances and healing rituals? How do spirit mediums connect with these media? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Channeling (Spiritualism) -- Congresses
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Mass media and anthropology -- Congresses
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Technology -- Congresses
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Globalization -- Congresses
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
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Channeling (Spiritualism)
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Globalization.
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Mass media and anthropology.
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Spiritismus
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Medium
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Neue Medien
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Digitalübertragung
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Massenmedien
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Mediums (parapsychologie)
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Massamedia.
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Technology.
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Internationalisatie.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Behrend, Heike, editor
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Dreschke, Anja, editor
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Zillinger, Martin, editor
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| ISBN |
9780823253845 |
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0823253848 |
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0823253805 |
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9780823253807 |
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0823253813 |
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9780823253814 |
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9780823261543 |
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0823261549 |
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9780823253838 |
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082325383X |
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