Jaguars of the Dawn

Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-565-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 577 g

The Brazilian Spiritualist Christian Order Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn) is the place where the worlds of the living and the spirits merge and the boundaries between lives are regularly crossed. Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, the author explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides. She sheds light on the ways in which mediumistic development in the Vale do Amanhecer is used for therapeutic purposes and informs notions of body and self, of illness and wellbeing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pierini, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Note on Translations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Ways to Embody the Divine in Brazil

Chapter 2. Vale do Amanhecer

Chapter 3. Spirits in Transition: The Multidimensional Self

Chapter 4. Jaguars of the Dawn: The Transhistorical Self

Chapter 5. Disobsessive Healing

Chapter 6. Mediumship

Chapter 7. Learning Spirit Mediumship: Ways of Knowing

Chapter 8. Spiritual Routes

Chapter 9. Therapeutic Trajectories

Conclusion

Appendix

Glossary

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pierini, Emily
Emily Pierini is a Marie Curie Fellow in anthropology at Sapienza University of Rome and visiting professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.