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
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
