Masked Possession

Author : Alana Delacroix
Publisher : Lyrical Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781516103614

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Masked Possession by Alana Delacroix Pdf

A MAN WHO CAN WEAR ANY FACE Caro Yeats doesn’t run from much. As a former investigative reporter now working PR for Toronto’s supernaturals, what she hasn’t seen mostly isn’t worth seeing. But the assignment to “rebrand” Eric Kelton’s out-of-control alter egos has her on edge from the start. Kelton is the heirarch of the Masquerada, beings able to change their face—their entire persona—on a whim. Eric’s charisma muddles her instincts. How can she trust a man who can become anybody? A WOMAN WITHOUT A PASTEric has never met anyone like Caro, with her lightning wit and uncanny insight. But desirable as she is, he’d be a fool to let her near. Struggling to hide the sudden loss of his powers, Eric can’t risk becoming entangled with a woman who scorns her supernatural side and claims not to play politics. The enemies on her trail are strong, clever, and vicious. And when they force Eric and Caro together, the fallout could shatter far more than two hearts . . .

Author : Patrick McNamara Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313384332

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Spirit Possession and Exorcism by Patrick McNamara Ph.D. Pdf

This two-volume text reviews spirit possession throughout history, analyzes case studies from a cognitive neuroscience perspective, and examines rites for exorcism. From the beginning of civilization to the present day, and across all major religions and cultures, there have been documented cases of people seemingly overtaken by an unseen entity. The invading force—whether good or bad—appears to replace the possessor's soul with the spirit's own persona, resulting in mystifying symptoms such as levitation or other supernatural feats, speaking in tongues, and even horrific and inexplicably accelerated physical distortion and deterioration. This is a two-volume chronological history and examination of spirit possession that addresses its phenomenological, psychological, and neurobiological aspects, and its effects on societies. Volume one reviews spirit possession from the upper Paleolithic era to modern times, while Volume two focuses on case studies and rites of exorcism.

Author : Alana Delacroix
Publisher : Lyrical Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781516103621

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Masked Desire by Alana Delacroix Pdf

A PERFECT DISGUISE As security chief of the supernaturals’ ruling council, Michaela Chui has seen more than her fair share of disaster. For centuries, she’s survived through caution and strategy. But when the only human councilor is viciously murdered, Michaela knows the coincidences that keep blocking her investigation are a sure sign of bad things to come. She needs answers fast. And her only ally is Cormac Redoak: wild, unpredictable, unreliable—and worse, distractingly attractive. A HIDDEN TRUTH An exile from the court of the Fairy Queen, Cormac has all the experience with careful strategy and veiled intentions he can stand. But he also has the fey talent for getting his way, and he’s sure his way lies with Michaela’s. No matter that she can change her lovely face at will; there’s a clarity to her being that he’d know anywhere. Working with her will be temptation and frustration bound together. Somehow, though, he must convince her to trust him—without revealing the secrets he dares never share . . .

Author : Fritz Kramer
Publisher : Verso
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0860914658

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The Red Fez by Fritz Kramer Pdf

This text explores the ways in which colonial Europeans have been represented in African ritual art and drama.

Author : Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739184660

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Spirit Possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou Thought by Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken Pdf

This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory. The author takes the period of the 1930s and ‘40s, as the centerfold of a more complex network of relations that places Haiti as one of the pivots of a more expanded intellectual conversation around “possession,” which links anthropology, literature, psychoanalysis, human rights, and visual arts in France, Haiti, and the United States. Benedicty argues that Haiti as the anthropological other serves as a kick-starter to an entire French-based theoretical apparatus (Breton, Leiris, Bataille, de Certeau, Foucault, and Butler), but once up and running, its role as catalyst is forgotten and the multiple iterations of the anthropological other are cast back into the net of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s “Savage slot.” The book offers the reader unfamiliar with Haiti a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of twentieth and early twenty-first century Haitian thought, including a detailed timeline of important moments in the intellectual history that connects Haiti to France and the United States. The first part of the book is about global dispossessions in the first decades of the twentieth century; the second part points to how the narratives of ‘Haiti’ are intimately linked to a Franco-U.S.-American discursive space, constructed over the course of the twentieth century, a discursive order that has conflated the representation of ‘Haiti’ with an understanding of Vodou primarily as an occult religion, and not as a philosophical system. The third and fourth parts of the book examine how the novels of René Depestre, Jean-Claude Fignolé, and Kettly Mars have revisited the notion of possession since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorships.

Author : Heike Behrend
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0299166341

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Spirit Possession, Modernity & Power in Africa by Heike Behrend Pdf

In Africa as well as in Europe, many spirits and their mediums are part of local as well as global cultures. Christian spirits named Hitler, Mussolini, or King Bruce (Bruce Lee) flourish in a pantheon of new holy spirits in Uganda waging war against the government. Spirits of airplanes, engines, guitars, and angels are found in Central Africa; and thunder, snakes, and rain as well as playboys and prostitutes inhabit the spirit world in West Africa. Spirit possession cults have continued to proliferate, even in the secular West, and continue to be a subject of intense interest. Despite the continuous expansion of the field, some problems are only now beginning to be explored. The experts in this volume focus on questions of power, the history and inner dynamics of cults, the role of gender and images of the other, based on research conducted during the last fifteen years in Africa. The contributors document changes taking place across the continent as possession beliefs and practices respond to new circumstances and address the shifting local implications of an increasingly global socio-economy. Gender, ethnicity, and class are examined as intersecting forces and features of spirit phenomena. The case studies presented are richly contextualized: history, social organization and upheaval, alternative religious options--all are considered relevant to an understanding of possession forms. Contributors: Leslie Sharp, Heike Behrend, Adeline Masquelier, Mathias Krings, Jean-Paul Colleyn, Alexandra O. de Sousa, Susan Kenyon, Tobias Wendl, Ute Luig, and Linda Giles Co-published with James Currey Publishers, U.K. The Wisconsin edition is not for sale in the United Kingdon, the traditional British Commonwealth (excepting Canada), nor in Europe.

Author : Traugott K. Oesterreich
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0415209528

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Possession by Traugott K. Oesterreich Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845458683

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Embodied Communities by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Pdf

Court dance in Java has changed from a colonial ceremonial tradition into a national artistic classicism. Central to this general transformation has been dance's role in personal transformation, developing appropriate forms of everyday behaviour and strengthening the powers of persuasion that come from the skillful manipulation of both physical and verbal forms of politeness. This account of dance's significance in performance and in everyday life draws on extensive research, including dance training in Java, and builds on how practitioners interpret and explain the repertoire. The Javanese case is contextualized in relation to social values, religion, philosophy, and commoditization arising from tourism. It also raises fundamental questions about the theorization of culture, society and the body during a period of radical change.

Author : Oesterreich, T K
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136304361

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Possession, Demoniacal And Other by Oesterreich, T K Pdf

This is Volume III of six in a series on Anthropology and Psychology. Originally published in 1930, this collection of papers looks at possession, demonical and other, among primitive races, in antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times.

Author : Anselm L. Strauss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351505147

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Mirrors and Masks by Anselm L. Strauss Pdf

Identity as a concept is as elusive as everyone's sense of his own personal identity. It is connected with appraisals made by oneself and by others. Each person sees himself mirrored in the judgments of others. The masks he presents to the world are fashioned upon his anticipations of judgments. In Mirrors and Masks, Anselm Strauss uses the notion of identity to organize materials and thoughts about certain aspects of problems traditionally intriguing to social psychologists.The problems Strauss considers to be intriguing traditionally are those encountered when studying group membership, motivation, personality development, and social interaction. The topics covered include: the basic importance of language for human action and identity; the perpetual indeterminacy of identities in constantly changing social contexts; the symbolic and developmental character of human interaction; the theme of identity as it affects adult behaviqr; relations between generations and their role in personality development; and the symbolic character of membership in groups.By focusing on symbolic behavior with an emphasis on social organization, Strauss presents a fruitful, systematic perspective from which to view traditional problems of social psychology. He opens up new areas of thought and associates matters that are not ordinarily considered to be related. Strauss believes that psychiatrists* and psychologists underestimate immensely the influence of social organization upon individual behavior and individual structure, and that sociologists, whose major concern is with social organization, should employ some kind of social psychology in their research. Mirrors and Masks shows that the fusion of theoretical approaches benefits the analyses of many scholars. This fascinating work should be read by sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and psychiatrists.

Author : Sergio A. Rueda
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781476632513

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Diabolical Possession and the Case Behind The Exorcist by Sergio A. Rueda Pdf

Reexamining the purported 1949 exorcism of a 13-year old boy in Mount Ranier, Maryland—the most famous and widely documented case in history—the author explores the subject of demonic possession in the light of science. Eyewitness accounts, unpublished photos and never before published documents from the archives of the Rhine Research Foundation provide fresh perspective on the events that inspired the novel, and later the film, The Exorcist.

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726612165

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The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

In the final chapter of their saga, the Musketeers must reckon with France’s most famous mystery—"The Man in the Iron Mask". As the story begins, D’Artagnan is in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV. Meanwhile, his old friends Aramis and Porthos are hatching a coup. They’ve learned that the king’s identical twin is locked away in prison. If they can somehow swap the places of the two men, France will be saved. It’s a plan that sets the Musketeers on a collision course with each other. Inspired by a real story, "The Man in the Iron Mask" is a rip-roaring historical adventure. And a fitting send-off to literature’s greatest swashbucklers. Recommended for anyone who loved the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeremy Irons. Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) was a hugely popular 19th century French writer. Born of mixed French and Haitian heritage, Dumas first rose to prominence in Paris as a playwright, but later gained international fame with his historical fiction. Often co-authored with other writers, these stories wove together swashbuckling adventure, romance, and real events from France’s past. Among the best known are "The Three Musketeers", and its sequels "Twenty Years After", and "Le Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later". Set across four decades, this trilogy follows the rise of the dashing D’Artagnan—from hot-headed soldier to trusted captain under Louis XIV. Dumas’ other novels include "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Black Tulip". His works have been adapted into more than 200 movies, including "The Man in the Iron Mask" starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Author : Patrick McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521889582

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The Neuroscience of Religious Experience by Patrick McNamara Pdf

Aimed at researchers and graduate students, this book describes how brain processes support religious expression and provides a current account of the neuroscience of religion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134429062

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Cal Jur, III. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Irving I. Zaretsky,Cynthia Shambaugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000517521

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Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America by Irving I. Zaretsky,Cynthia Shambaugh Pdf

Originally published in 1978 Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America is an incredibly diverse and comprehensive bibliography on published works containing ethnographic data on, and analysis of, spirit possession and spirit mediumship in North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in some Afro-American communities in the Western Hemisphere. The sources on Western Afro-American communities were chosen to shed light on the African continent and the Americas. The bibliography, while not exhaustive, provides extensive research on the area of research in spiritualism in Africa and Afro-America. The bibliography also provides unique sources on spirit cults, ritual or ethnic groups and will be of especial interest to researchers. Although published in the late 70s, this book will still provide an incredibly useful research tool for academics in the area of religion, with a focus on spiritualism and non-western religions.