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Title:Domestic Demons and the Intimate Uncanny
Editors:Kirsch, Thomas G.ISNI
Mahlke, Kirsten
Dijk, Rijk vanISNI
Year:2023
Pages:220
Language:English
Publisher:Routledge
ISBN:9780429273582
Geographic terms:Africa
Latin America
Europe
Subjects:religion
spirits
culture
Abstract:This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny, probing into their effects on people's domestic and intimate spheres of life. The chapters examine the uncanny in a cross-cultural manner, involving empirically rich case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Europe. They use an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to show how people are affected by their intimate interactions with spiritual beings. While several chapters focus on the tensions between public and private spheres that emerge in the context of spiritual encounters, others explore what kind of relationships between humans and demonic entities are imagined to exist and in what ways these imaginations can be interpreted as a commentary on people's concerns and social realities.
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