War Magic

Religion, Sorcery, and Performance
Herausgeber: Farrer, Douglas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Investigates spiritual warfare in religion, magic, sorcery and shamanism. Reveals war magic and warrior religion in contemporary and historical circumstances. Shows the broad, international appeal of symbolic and ritual violence, in the east and west. Research into embodied performance provides keys to phenomenological insight.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 273g
• ISBN-13: 9781785333293
• ISBN-10: 1785333291
• Artikelnr.: 45232045

Autorenporträt

Douglas Farrer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Guam. He is the author of Shadows of the Prophet: Martial Arts and Sufi Mysticism (Springer), and co-author of Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge: Asian Traditions in a Transnational World (SUNY).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction: War Magic: Religion, Sorcery, and Performance
D. S. Farrer
Chapter 1. Tangki War Magic: Spirit Warfare in Singapore
Margaret Chan
Chapter 2. Javanese Ritual Initiation: Invulnerability, Authority, and
Spiritual Improvement
Jean-Marc de Grave
Chapter 3. Discourse of Decline: Sumatran Perspectives on Black Magic
J. David Neidel
Chapter 4. Tamil Tiger Ritual, War, and Mystical Empowerment
Michael Roberts
Chapter 5. Shamanic Battleground in Venezuela
Zeljko Jokic
Chapter 6. Chants of Re-enchantment: Chamorro Spiritual Resistance to
Colonial Domination
D. S. Farrer and James D. Sellmann
Chapter 7. War Magic and Just War in Indian Tantric Buddhism
Iain Sinclair
Index