Lonelyloner Posted December 9, 2020 Report Share Posted December 9, 2020 https://academic.oup.com/jhs/article-abstract/3/1/151/2188572?redirectedFrom=fulltext The Self-Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilisation. By Frederick M. Smith. The Self Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilisation . By Frederick M. Smith . New York : Columbia University Press , 2006 . ISBN: 978-0-231-13748-5 (hardback), xxvii + 701, 12 plates. $60.00. Stuart Ray Sarbacker The Journal of Hindu Studies, Volume 3, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 151–154, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiq005 Published: 09 March 2010 Cite Permissions Icon Permissions Share Issue Section: Book Reviews Frederick Smith's The Self Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature provides a number of groundbreaking insights with respect to conceptualisations of and methodological approaches to the phenomenon of possession (āveśa, praveśa, and samāveśa) in the Indian traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and more broadly in South Asian religion. Smith's analysis of the issues of gender, embodiment, economics, and class in relation to possession demonstrates the complex sociodynamics of adorcism (encouragement of positive possession states) and exorcism (removal of negative possession states), as have been postulated in the larger comparative context. Smith's work also elicits a number of insights into the dynamic spectrum within the traditions of yoga and tantra between world negation and world surmounting that are characteristic of the... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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