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100			_aFerrari, Fabrizio M. _95927
245		0	_aHealth and religious rituals in South Asia: disease, possession and healing/ _c Fabrizio M. Ferrari
260			_aLondon : _bRoutledge, _c2011.
300			_a224p. ; _c23cm.
440			_aRoutledge South Asian religion series, 5 _95928
505			_aPART I Introduction 1 Possession in theory and practice: historical and contemporary models FREDERICK M. SMITH 2 Is possession really possible? Towards a hermeneutics of transformative embodiment in South Asia ADITYA MALIK PART 11 Possession from the West 3 Possession in an Islamist valley: spirits, Islamists and love in Chitral, northern Pakistan MAGNUS MARSDEN 4 Sikh controversies concerning Punjabi pilgrimage sites used for healing and possession RON GEAVES 5 Ancestors, demons and the goddess; negotiating the animate cosmos of Jainism ANNE VALLELY PART III Possession from the North 6 Disease, the demons and the Buddhas: a study of Tibetan conceptions of disease and religious practice IVETTE VARGAS-O'BRYAN 7 Shamanic healing: a jhaiikri in the city DEEPAK SHIMKHADA AND ADAM D. PAVE 8 Calculating fecundity in the KSiyapa SanthUa ANTHONY CERULLI FART IV Possession from the East 9 The whisper of the spirits: shamanic kinship and the cult of the ancestors among the Lanjia Saoras of Orissa STEFANO BEGGIORA 10 In the shadow of the devil: traditional patterns of Lepcha culture reinterpreted DAVIDE TORRI FART V Possession from the South 11 GumSg, WizuriSn and Tan-drusffh: affliction and healing in Zoroastrianism RASTIN MEHRI 12 Possession as protection and affliction: the goddess Mariyamman's fierce grace WILLIAM HARMAN 13 The obsolescence of the demons? Modernity and possession in Sri Lanka
650			_aSpirit possession -- South Asia. _95929
650			_aSouth Asia -- Religious life and customs. _95930
650			_aSpiritual healing -- South Asia. _95931
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