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Author: Esther M. Friesner
Publisher: Bluefire
Published: 2013-04-23
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0375873147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn ancient Japan, Himiko the privileged daughter of her clan's leader, fights the constraints and expectations imposed on young women, and instead finds her own path which includes secret shaman lessons.
Author: Esther Friesner
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 2013-04-23
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 0375869085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Himiko traverses ancient Japan in order to free enslaved members of her clan, she encounters members of many other tribes and emerges as the leader who will unify them.
Author: Barley Norton
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0252092007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSongs for the Spirits examines the Vietnamese practice of communing with spirits through music and performance. During rituals dedicated to a pantheon of indigenous spirits, musicians perform an elaborate sequence of songs--a "songscape"--for possessed mediums who carry out ritual actions, distribute blessed gifts to disciples, and dance to the music's infectious rhythms. Condemned by French authorities in the colonial period and prohibited by the Vietnamese Communist Party in the late 1950s, mediumship practices have undergone a strong resurgence since the early 1990s, and they are now being drawn upon to promote national identity and cultural heritage through folklorized performances of rituals on the national and international stage. By tracing the historical trajectory of traditional music and religion since the early twentieth century, this groundbreaking study offers an intriguing account of the political transformation and modernization of cultural practices over a period of dramatic and often turbulent transition. An accompanying DVD contains numerous video and music extracts that illustrate the fascinating ways in which music evokes the embodied presence of spirits and their gender and ethnic identities.
Author: Karen Fjelstad
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1501719149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume examine the resurgence of the Mother Goddess religion among contemporary Vietnamese following the economic "Renovation" period in Vietnam. Anthropologists explore the forces that compel individuals to become mediums and the social repercussions of their decisions and interactions.
Author: K. Fjelstad
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-07-04
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0230119700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again and the impact of ritual transnationalism in both countries.
Author: Gertrud Hüwelmeier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-12-04
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1135224153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaintaining and forging religious networks across borders have long been part of migrants' activities. However, due to the wide availability of communication technologies and the reduced costs of transportation, transnational social practices, including religious activities, have witnessed an enormous intensification in the last few decades around the world. Traveling Spirits seeks to understand these processes by investigating how religion goes global. How do religious agents create and maintain transborder connections? In what way are religious practices being transformed, reinforced or newly invented when transported to different places around the world? How are power relations negotiated within transnational religious networks? How are processes of coming and going linked to religious practices and discourses? The book’s contributors provide rich ethnographic case studies on mobile evangelists, moving spirit mediums, and traveling believers. They analyze the relationship between global, regional, national, local and individual religious processes by centering on economic activities, media representations, or politics of emplacement. Grounded firmly in cross-cultural comparison, this book contributes significantly to the literature on globalization, migration and transnational religion.
Author: Julia Rivers
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-11-02
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781979365314
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Author: Patrick M. Erben
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013-06-10
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0807838195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. Patrick Erben challenges the long-standing historical myth--first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin--that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. He deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the "holy experiment." Their belief in hidden yet persistent links between human language and the word of God impelled their vision of a common spiritual idiom. Translation became the search for underlying correspondences between diverse human expressions of the divine and served as a model for reconciliation and inclusiveness. Drawing on German and English archival sources, Erben examines iconic translations that engendered community in colonial Pennsylvania, including William Penn's translingual promotional literature, Francis Daniel Pastorius's multilingual poetics, Ephrata's "angelic" singing and transcendent calligraphy, the Moravians' polyglot missions, and the common language of suffering for peace among Quakers, Pietists, and Mennonites. By revealing a mystical quest for unity, Erben presents a compelling counternarrative to monolingualism and Enlightenment empiricism in eighteenth-century America.
Author: Arnold Lau
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: N. W. Erickson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2007-10-17
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1435702336
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