War Magic : : Religion, Sorcery, and Performance / / ed. by Douglas Farrer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Chan, Margaret,; Farrer, D. S.,; Grave, Jean-Marc de,; Jokic, Željko,; Neidel, J. David,; Roberts, Michael,; Sellmann, James D.,; Sinclair, Iain,
• HerausgeberIn: Farrer, Douglas,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Introduction. War Magic: Religion, Sorcery, and Performance --; Chapter 1 Tangki War Magic: Spirit Warfare in Singapore --; Chapter 2 Javanese Ritual Initiation: Invulnerability, Authority, and Spiritual Improvement --; Chapter 3 Discourse of Decline: Sumatran Perspectives on Black Magic --; Chapter 4 Tamil Tiger Ritual, War, and Mystical Empowerment --; Chapter 5 Shamanic Battleground in Venezuela --; Chapter 6 Chants of Re-enchantment: Chamorro Spiritual Resistance to Colonial Domination --; Chapter 7 War Magic and Just War in Indian Tantric Buddhism --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785333309; 9783110998221
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785333309?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Douglas Farrer.

This compelling volume explores how war magic and warrior religion unleash the power of the gods, demons, ghosts, and the dead. Documenting war magic and warrior religion as they are performed in diverse cultures and across historical time periods, this volume foregrounds embodiment, practice, and performance in anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion. The authors go beyond what magic ‘represents’ to consider what magic does. From Chinese exorcists, Javanese spirit siblings, and black magic in Sumatra to Tamil Tiger suicide bombers, Chamorro spiritual re-enchantment, tantric Buddhist war magic, and Yanomami dark shamans, religion and magic are re-evaluated not just from the practitioner’s perspective but through the victim’s lived experience. These original investigations reveal a nuanced approach to understanding social action, innovation, and the revitalization of tradition in colonial and post-colonial societies undergoing rapid social transformation.