Finding a Place for Possession, Divination, and Trance within the Historical Perspective
Journal of Religious History June 1, 2014 Christopher Hartney
In this review article four publications from 2008–2010 are examined to assess the interplay between studies of possession, divination, and trance and historical method. The article avoids discussing the research in these works done from a purely anthropological or ethnographic stance, but focuses on the thematics of historiography. It does so by analysing the framing devices used in the...