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You can learn to be possessed

You can learn to be possessed

Ryan Schram

Mills 169 (A26)

ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au

7 May 2015

Readings

Luhrmann, Tanya M. 2004. “Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity.” American Anthropologist 106 (3): 518–28. doi:10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.518.

Deren, Maya, Cherel Ito, and Teiji Ito. ca. 1947–1954. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. Documentary. http://youtu.be/2YIO_dxyJio?t=1m27s.

Key ideas for this week

  • Is it real? Are the Vodou practictioners really mounted by lwa? Are Vineyard Chicagoans really having coffee with God?
  • The continuum of ritual, dance and trance
  • William James and Tanya Luhrmann

A guide to the unit

ANTH 2667: The anthropology of religion—a guide to the unit

 
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