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interdisciplinary and transcultural perspectives
1 online resource (xv, 439 pages) : illustrations.
"The characteristics of possession are numerous and vary between different socio-cultural and historical contexts. Different ideas of possession can be observed within different cultural and social contexts both past and present. This makes defining possession all the more difficult. Various approaches to "ideas of possession" in different academic disciplines and in different cultural contexts allow the discourse(s) to benefit from insights that would otherwise remain confined to the society under discussion or the field that determines the method of study. The introduction presents an overview of recent interdisciplinary research on possession and scholarly attempts at a working definition, followed by a brief outline of the individual case studies in this volume"--
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approach to the Study of Possession -- Framing "Possession" -- Defining "Possession" -- Studying "Possession" -- Bibliography -- 1 Ideas of Possession in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia: A Comparative View -- Possession Disorders in Mesopotamian Healing Traditions -- Nightmares and How to Avoid Them -- Preventive Measures against Demonic Attacks -- Ideas of Possession in Ancient Egypt -- Superhuman Entities and Dis-ease
Possession as Control and Altered States -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 2 Names of Authority in the Demonologies of Ancient Judaism and Christianity -- Words of Authority in Qumran and New Testament Literature -- Demonic Invocations and "Inverted" Exorcisms from Qumran and the New Testament -- Words of Authority in Medieval and Contemporary Catholic Exorcism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 My Body Made Me Do It: Noninvasive Possession in Early Christianity -- Two Etiologies of Demons -- Internal Demons in Early Christianity -- Internal Demons in the New Testament -- Conclusions
Conclusion: On the Nature of the Therapeutic in Dybbuk Exorcism -- Bibliography -- 6 Demonic Possession and the Proof of True Faith: Habsburgs, Lutherans, and the Devil in Austria -- Introduction -- Early Modern Times: Existential Uncertainty and the Devil on the Rise -- Social Tension and Ideological-Religious Polarization: Austria in the Late Sixteenth Century -- Researching the Devils of Graz around 1600: Chaplain Knorr's Lost Manuscript of 1609 -- The Exorcisms of Graz in 1599/1600: Guidelines and Practice -- Three Different Victims, Three Different Exorcisms, Three Different Consequences
Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 The Psychologization of Exorcism: Diagnosing Demonic Possession in the Roman Catholic Church in Austria -- Introduction -- Possession between Psychology and Religion -- Roman Catholic Exorcism -- Diagnosing Demonic Possession -- The Institutionalization of Roman Catholic Exorcism -- The Psychologization of Exorcism: Empirical Findings on Roman Catholic Exorcism in Austria -- Diagnosing Possession -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8 That Old Feeling: Entangling Traditional Symptoms and Experiences of Possession through Catholic Exorcism in Contemporary Italy
edited by Nicole M. Bauer, J. Andrew Doole.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2024]