The Self Possessed : : Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization / / Frederick Smith.

The Self Possessed is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (736 p.) :; 13 illus.
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