Dr Bettina E Schmidt: 1 book
Spirits and Trance in Brazil
An Anthropology of Religious Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Bettina E. Schmidt explores experiences usually labelled as spirit possession, a highly contested and challenged term, using extensive ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil and home to a range of religions which practice spirit possession. The book is enriched by...
