Where the Spirits Dwell
Possession, Christianization, and Saints' Shrines in Late Antiquity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9316083 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Frankfurter (0000-0003-4849-1884, University of New Hampshire at Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-46 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Harvard Theological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-8160 • E-ISSN: 1475-4517 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0017816009990290 |
| OpenAlex | W2165663503 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
With its clear-glass, brightly-lit, whitewashed interior, Harvard Divinity School's Andover Chapel reflects all the values of elite Protestant culture in New England history: quiet prayer, thoughtful sermons, an approach to God through the heart rather than the senses, and a minimum of iconic reminders that the space is Christian. And it was here, in April 2007, that this author beheld the Voudoun spirits Danbala and Ogoun arrive through several experienced mediums. The ceremony had not really been intended to call down the spirits, only to praise them in a kind of broad sampling of Haitian Voudoun songs. 1 But the altar was full of their treats, the room was full, the drummers were good, the singing was loud, and the mediums were expert. So the spirits arrived: various Danbalas slithering across the floor and a very martial Ogoun huffing and puffing around the altar to get his rum. And they were greeted, with awed interest by the Harvard students, familiarity by the Haitians, and annoyed tolerance by one Adventist woman
Altar · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Chapel · Choir · Damnation · Divinity · Incense · Literature · Possession (linguistics · Prayer · Protestantism · Theology · Visual arts · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical and Architectural Studies · History · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
Spirit Possession in Jesus Research
Learning Latin in the Roman Army
Latinization, Citizenship, and the Epigraphic Habit
Latin, Literacy, and the Roman Economy
Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great
The very deceitfulness of devils’
Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West
Historiolae
Le dévoyé et le damné
The wicked and the damned
Female Figurines in Early Christian Egypt
Possession's Native Land
| Citations per year | 1.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |