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The Self Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization
Frederick Smith
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| #479289 in Books | 2006-12-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x2.08 x6.36l,2.45 | File type: PDF | 736 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This is truly a great book. So why does it have such an ...|By Customer|This is truly a great book. So why does it have such an outrageous price? Here in Nepal I got it from Motilal publishers for ten dollars. I suspect that most people who could really use the tremendous amount of knowledge in this book are poor like me. Lower the price!|6 of 8 people found the following||This comprehensive work should appear on the shelf of every serious scholar of South Asian religion... Essential. (CHOICE)
An important and path-breaking book. (Alf Hiltebeitel Journal of the American Oriental Society)
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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 common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years.
In South Asia possession has always been broader an...
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