Péter Rácz

Possession trance covaries with measures of social rigidity in the Ethnographic Atlas

Religion, Brain & Behavior June 29, 2023 Péter Rácz 1 citation

Possession trance is an altered state of consciousness resulting from spirit possession, belief in an alien entity residing in the self. Though treated as an individual psychopathological condition in Western medicine, cultural anthropology has long tied possession trance, and trance and possession phenomena in general, to marginalization by increasingly complex and inflexible social...