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

Frederick M. Smith

736 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative reflective medium-paced
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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 c...

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