Firewalking and Religious Healing : : The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement / / Loring M. Danforth.
"If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a northern Gree...
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Danforth, Loring M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Firewalking and Religious Healing : The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement / Loring M. Danforth. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016] ©1990 1 online resource (424 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Modern Greek Studies ; 35 Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. The Festival of Saints Constantine and Helen -- II. The Interpretation of Religious Healing -- III. The Anastenaria -- IV. From Illness and Suffering to Health and Joy -- V. History, Folklore, Politics, and Science -- VI. The Celebration of Community in a Changing World -- VII. A Full Moon Firedance in Maine -- VIII. The American Firewalking Movement -- IX. Contemporary Anthropology in a Postmodern World -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine dance dramatically over red-hot coals, and, second, American firewalking, one of the more spectacular activities of New Age psychology. Loring Danforth not only analyzes these rituals in light of the most recent work in medical and symbolic anthropology but also describes in detail the lives of individual firewalkers, involving the reader personally in their experiences: he views ritual therapy as a process of transformation and empowerment through which people are metaphorically moved from a state of illness to a state of health. Danforth shows that the Anastenaria and the songs accompanying it allow people to express and resolve conflict-laden family relationships that may lead to certain kinds of illnesses. He also demonstrates how women use the ritual to gain a sense of power and control over their lives without actually challenging the ideology of male dominance that pervades Greek culture. Comparing the Anastenaria with American firewalking, Danforth includes a gripping account of his own participation in a firewalk in rural Maine. Finally he examines the place of anthropology in a postmodern world in which the boundaries between cultures are becoming increasingly blurred. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Fire walking Greece. Fire walking United States. Spiritual healing Greece. Spiritual healing United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691028538 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400884360 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400884360 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400884360.jpg |
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