The self possessed: deity and spirit possession in South Asian literature and civilization

Smith, Frederick M

The book is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering 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 it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years.

Publisher: Columbia University Press

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