RELIGION / Folk & Tribal
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The Spider Dance
Based on an ethnographic research among contemporary Pagan communities in Southern Italy (Salento, Apulia), The Spider Dance challenges ideas of historicity, healing, place-making and the experience of time among persons engaged in reviving, continuing, or re-creating traditional Pagan p...
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Charming Beauties and Frightful Beasts
Fabrizio M. Ferrari, Thomas Dahnhardt, Patrick Olivelle, David Smith, David Torri, Alice Collett, Eleanor Nesbitt, Stefano Beggiora, Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Sarit K. Chaudhuri, Eva de Clercq, David Pinault, Rachel Dwyer, Xenia Zeiler, Amy L. Allocco
Fabrizio M. Ferrari, Thomas Dahnhardt
Discussions on non-human animals, other-than-human persons and religion originally emerged within the context of Christian theology, eco-theology and Western-based environmentalism. In response to that, and by adhering to post-modern discourses on, for instance, indigeneity, mimicry and hybridity, t...
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Playing God
"This fascinating little book deals in detail with what at first might seem a small cult, colourful and dynamic certainly, but of significance merely local to its place of origin in the Indian state of Kerala. As the story unfolds, however, it becomes clear that this is far from the case, and that t...