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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Modern Greek Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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