Intimacy and Ritual: A Study of Spiritualism, Medium and Groups

ISBN-13: 9780367338084 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 112 str.

Vieda Skultans

Opis

Originally published in 1974 Intimacy and Ritual is a sympathetic study of spiritualist activities and their relation to the practitioners’ secular lives. It is based on the author’s fieldwork as a ‘participant observer’ among spiritualists in a South Wales town.

Spis treści

Preface

1 Introduction

2. The Actors

3. Privacy and Pain

4. Healing Rituals

5. Church and Circle

6. Symbol and Explanation

7. Religious and Therapeutic Encounters

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Vieda Skultans