Douglas Farrer: War Magic | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781785333293 | War Magic | Religion, Sorcery, and Performance | Douglas Farrer | Buch

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This compelling volume explores how war magic and warrior religion unleash the power of the gods, demons, ghosts, and the dead. Documenting war magic and warrior religion as they are performed in diverse cultures and across historical time periods, this volume foregrounds embodiment, practice, and performance in anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion. The authors go beyond what magic 'represents' to consider what magic does. From Chinese exorcists, Javanese spirit siblings, and black magic in Sumatra to Tamil Tiger suicide bombers, Chamorro spiritual re-enchantment, tantric Buddhist war magic, and Yanomami dark shamans, religion and magic are re-evaluated not just from the practitioner's perspective but through the victim's lived experience. These original investigations reveal a nuanced approach to understanding social action, innovation, and the revitalization of tradition in colonial and post-colonial societies undergoing rapid social transformation.

Über den Autor

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).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781785333293
ISBN-10:	1785333291
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Farrer, D. S.
Redaktion:	Farrer, Douglas
Hersteller:	Berghahn Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Douglas Farrer
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.2016
Gewicht:	0,273 kg