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The Hammer and the Flute. Women, Power, and Spirit Possession.
Mary Keller
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Description for The Hammer and the Flute. Women, Power, and Spirit Possession.
Paperback. It provides an argument for the evaluation of religious lives and their struggles for meaning and power in the contemporary landscape of critical theory. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HRQM2; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Feminist theory and postcolonial theory share an interest in developing theoretical frameworks for describing and evaluating subjectivity comparatively, especially with regard to non-autonomous models of agency. As a historian of religions, Mary Keller uses the figure of the "possessed woman" to analyze a subject that is spoken-through rather than speaking and whose will is the will of the ancestor, deity or spirit that wields her to engage the question of agency in a culturally and historically comparative study that recognizes the prominent role possessed women play in their respective traditions. Drawing from the fields of anthropology and comparative psychology, Keller ... Read more
Feminist theory and postcolonial theory share an interest in developing theoretical frameworks for describing and evaluating subjectivity comparatively, especially with regard to non-autonomous models of agency. As a historian of religions, Mary Keller uses the figure of the "possessed woman" to analyze a subject that is spoken-through rather than speaking and whose will is the will of the ancestor, deity or spirit that wields her to engage the question of agency in a culturally and historically comparative study that recognizes the prominent role possessed women play in their respective traditions. Drawing from the fields of anthropology and comparative psychology, Keller ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801881886
SKU
V9780801881886
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About Mary Keller
Mary Keller is an adjunct in the religious studies and African American studies programs at the University of Wyoming.
Reviews for The Hammer and the Flute. Women, Power, and Spirit Possession.
[A] provocative exploration of possession theory... Keller is able to offer not only fresh insight into possession phenomena but also a penetrating critique of the categories and concepts with which it has been theorized.
Kelly E. Hayes Journal of Religion 2004 Keller's argument for a revisioning of agency, women, and possession is important intervention. By bringing together an unusual ... Read more
Kelly E. Hayes Journal of Religion 2004 Keller's argument for a revisioning of agency, women, and possession is important intervention. By bringing together an unusual ... Read more