Satan and the Computer: The Euro-American Revival of Spirit Possession
Religion, Agency, Restitution June 21, 2001 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199241972.003.0008 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that radical personal experience can generate a near-supernatural cosmology, comparable to witch-finding hunts and spirit mediumship, and proposes this as a 'natural model' for such phenomena. |
Abstract
Abstract In this lecture, I shall consider how a near-supernatural cosmology is generated out of radical personal experience in something many commentators have compared to the witch-finding hunts of early modern Europe, and, in its personal manifestation, to the anthropologists’ spirit mediumship. And in this I would suggest we have something approaching a ‘natural model’ for the phenomena I have been considering..