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

The Self Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization

Frederick Smith

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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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