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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: law of possession
    sub title: ritual, healing, and the secular state
  name:
    name part: Sax, William Sturman
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Basu, Helene
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 255 pages)
  abstract: Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. Modern, secular states have systematically attempted to eliminate them. 'The Law of Possession' compares and analyses the internal logic of such practices, as well as their relation to the modern, secular state.
  abstract: "Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. For example, a person suffers from an illness that cannot be cured, and in order to be healed he performs a ritual involving prosecution and defense, a judge and witnesses. Divine beings give evidence through human oracles, spirits possess their human victims and are exorcized, and local gods intervene to provide healing and justice. Such practices seem to be the very antithesis of modernity and many modern, secular states have systematically attempted to eliminate them. Why are such rituals largely absent from modern societies, and what happens to them when the state attempts to expunge them from their health and justice systems, or even to criminalize them? Despite the prevalence of rituals involving some or all of these elements, The Law of Possession represents the first attempt to compare and analyze them systematically. The volume brings together historical and contemporary case studies from East Asia, South Asia, and Africa, and argues that, despite consistent attempts by states to discourage, eliminate, and criminalize them, such rituals persist and even thrive because they meet widespread human needs"--
  table of contents: 1. Introduction / William S. Sax and Helene Basu -- 2. In the courtroom of jungle saints: the poor and transcendental justice / Helene Basu -- 3. Between shrine and courtroom: legal pluralism, witchcraft, and spirit agency in southeastern Africa / Arne S. Steinforth -- 4. Delocalizing illness: healing and the state in Chinese medicine / Dominic Steavu -- 5. Justice in Erwadi: a case study / Bhargavi Davar -- 6. Possession and the antisuperstition law in Maharashtra: an actors' perspective on modernization and disenchantment / Johannes Quack -- 7. "If your brother wants to kill you, kill him first": healing, law, and social justice in an African healer's courtroom / Ferdinand Okwaro -- 8. The Darbar of Goludev: possession, petitions, and modernity / Aditya Malik -- 9. Gods of justice / William S. Sax.
  note: edited by Wiliam S. Sax, Helene Basu.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Political customs and rites
  subject:
    topic: Justice, Administration of
  subject:
    topic: Spirit possession
  subject:
    topic: Traditional medicine
  subject:
    topic: Healers
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
  subject:
    topic: Mœurs politiques
  subject:
    topic: Possession par les esprits
  subject:
    topic: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
    topic: Inspiration & Personal Growth
  subject:
    topic: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
    topic: Spirituality
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Christianity
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Devotional
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Spirituality
  subject:
    topic: Healers
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
  subject:
    topic: Justice, Administration of
  subject:
    topic: Political customs and rites
  subject:
    topic: Spirit possession
  subject:
    topic: Traditional medicine
  classification: BL482 .L39 2015eb
  classification: 204/.2
  classification: SOC002010 REL032020
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Law of Possession : Ritual, Healing, and the Secular State
    name:
      name part: Sax, William S.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2015
  identifier: 9780190275761
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  identifier: 9780190275747
  identifier: 0190275758
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 150924
    record change date: 20260319161329.6
    record identifier: in00005712392
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng