Cosmologies of suffering : post-communist transformation, sacral communication, and healing /
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| Imprint: | Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2007. |
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| Description: | xvi, 244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6806553 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Imre Lázár, Agita Lūse
- Talking with the departed ones : shamanic death ritual in a post-socialist society / Galina Lindquist
- Downloading cosmic energy : intersection of faith-based and health-care practices (the Novosibirks case) / Tatiana Barchunova
- Interpreting a case of vitiation / Vilmos Keszegh
- Metaphors of the New Age purification practices / Dorota Hall
- Regressing into the past : past lives and collective memory in post-socialist Slovenia / Barbara Potrata
- Embodied and displaced history : spiritual empowerment in post-communist Hungary / Imre Lázár
- The body of the saint : iconographies of suffering in a Catholic commemoration ceremony in Vukovar, Croatia / Michaela Schäuble
- The voices of collapse : destructive and self-destructive expressions among the former miners in Walłbrzych (south Poland) / Thomas Rakowski
- 'Apocalypse Now!' : interpretations of HIV/AIDS in an urban township in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe / Alexander Rödlach.
