An Atlantic Genealogy of 'Spirit Possession
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2108628 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Christopher Johnson (0000-0002-7048-2389) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 393-425 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417511000107 |
| OpenAlex | W2154516105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 88 |
Not all spirits have retreated to metaphor, even in the very public sphere of U.S. electoral politics. As we learned during the last presidential campaign, Governor Sarah Palin enlisted the help of Kenyan pastor Thomas Muthee during his 2005 visit to Alaska to cast out the spirits that hindered her career. TheNew York Timeselaborated, 'Ms. Palin has long associations with religious leaders who practice a ... brand of Pentecostalism known as 'spiritual warfare.' Its adherents believe that demonic forces can colonize specific geographic areas and individuals.... Critics say the goal of the spiritual warfare movement is to create atheocracy' (Goodstein 2008, my emphasis
Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Genealogy · Governor · Metaphor · Political science · Politics · Possession (linguistics) · Presidential system · Reverence · Sociology · Theocracy · Theology · Christian Theology and Mission · Engineering · History · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development
Telegraph Spirits and Muertos Chinos
Scholars Possessed! On Writing Africana Religions with the Left Hand
Trajetórias Investigativas da Possessão
Subjectivity
Spirit Possession in Jesus Research
The Impossibility of Liberal Secularism
Possessed by a slave, not slavery
Possession
Humanism and Enlightenment
Shamanism and Spirit Possession in Chinese Modernity
Possession, performance, and the rhetoric of belonging
Varieties of Non-ordinary Experiences in Brazil—a Critical Review of the Contribution of Studies of ‘Religious Experience’ to the Study of Religion
"You're My True Vessel"
Inventive Traditions
Death and the Construction of Social Space
“It Makes Me Complete”
“The Dead Don’t Come Back Like the Migrant Comes Back”
Afterword
Of Vital Spirit and Precarious Bodies in Amerindian Socialities
Spiritist Mediumship as Historical Mediation
Oracles, Trauma, and the Limits of Contextualization
Staging transformation
Toward a Caribbean Genealogy of Energy
Ritual Chores
Com o diabo no corpo
To Which Earthly Categories Do Not Apply
Relics, protestants, things
Possession consciousness, religious individualism, and subjectivity in Brazilian Umbanda
Hidden presence
"Reconstructing the "Cradle of Brazil
Materializations of oricha voice through divinations in Cuban Santería
Mimesis, dúvida e poder
The value of (performative) acts
Political Theology/Theopolitics
Anthropology of and from the Ocean
Protestant Techniques of Care
Playing with perspectives
From distress to disease
Catching Power
Possession's Native Land
What Possessed You? Spirits, Property, and Political Sovereignty at the Limits of 'Possession
Possessive Places
Spiritual Pawning
Description and historical account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602)
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the ...
Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology
The hammer and the flute
Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century
The Catechism of Positive Religion
Diaspora Conversions
The varieties of religious experience
The Self Possessed
Kant
An Essay concerning Human Understanding
Provincializing Europe
Time and the Other
Kant as an Unfamiliar Source of Racism
Theses on the Philosophy of History
The metaphysics of morals (1797)
A Geographical Historie of Africa
Believe Not Every Spirit
Hurston, Zora Neale
Traveling Spirits
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone
Holy HarlotsFemininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil
Black MagicReligion and the African American Conjuring Tradition
Traité de la nature humaine
Wombs and Alien Spirits
Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte
Governing Spirits
Rara
Wizards and Scientists
Ecstatic Religion
The Myth of the Negro Past
A Secular Age
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Formations of the Secular
Believe Not Every Spirit
Method for the Easy Comprehension of History
The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes
Methodism
Mimesis and Alterity
Sorcery in the Black Atlantic
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil
Holy Harlots
Mama Lola
We Have Never Been Modern
Secrets, Gossip, and Gods
Secrets, Gossip, and Gods
Religion and Culture
How to Make Up One's Mind
Locke, Natural Law, and New World Slavery
Reading Witchcraft
Traveling Spirits
The Problem of the Fetish, I
Fascinans' or 'tremendum'? Permutations of the state, the body, and the divine in late-twentieth-century Havana
The Swedenborgian Search for African Purity
From Demon Possession to Magic Show
The Spirit of Civilization
Andre Thevet's North America
Free to Be a Slave
Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery
Spirits and Scientists
O cuidado dos mortos
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
Memories of the Slave Trade
The Political Unconscious
L'Afrique fantome
Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery
Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand
Spirit Possession Revisited
Hegel and Haiti
Of Spirit
Troubles with Materiality
| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,87 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |