| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Spirits at the crossroads of belief and pragmatism -- Spiritism and the place of the dead in Afro-Cuban religion -- On good mediumship: science, revolution, and legitimacy -- Encounter, selfhood, and multiplicity -- Development as cosmogony: ritual and materialization -- Epilogue: biographical intersections. |
| Summary |
This book is the first sustained, deep ethnographic study of Espiritismo (Spiritism) in Cuba. In it, Espirito Santo examines in-depth the daily rhythms of how individual practitioners' experiences and conceptions of selfhood are shaped. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Santeria -- Cuba.
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Santeria. |
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Cuba. |
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Black people -- Cuba -- Religion.
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Black people. |
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Religion. |
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Cuba -- Religion -- African influences.
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Spiritualism -- Cuba.
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Spiritualism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Espirito Santo, Diana, author. Developing the dead 9780813060781 (DLC) 2015004615 (OCoLC)889175069 |
| ISBN |
9780813055275 electronic book |
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081305527X electronic book |
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9780813060781 |
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0813060788 |
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