ABSTRACT: This article explores the tension between mystical prayer and immutable, ritual speech. The tension derives from the fact that mysticism resists linguistic formulation. In the context of embodied, psychosomatic prayer, long-term fieldwork shows what brings about the efficacy of such petition. "Felt" intimacy with God is a slow process and is aided by "sincerity" and "embodying the...
Reviewed by: Shamans, Nostalgias and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion Jesook Song Laurel Kendall , Shamans, Nostalgias and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009. 251 pp. Shamans, Nostalgias and the IMF demonstrates Laurel Kendall's rigorous and masterful observation that the aboriginal belief system and its practices can...
Linda L. Giles, Sociocultural Change and Spirit Possession on the Swahili Coast of East Africa, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 2, Possession and Social Change in Eastern Africa (Apr., 1995), pp. 89-106