29%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement
Loring M. Danforth
€ 54.99
€ 38.85
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement
Paperback. Evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing. This book includes the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine dance dramatically over red-hot coals, and, American firewalking, one of the more spectacular activities of New Age psychology. Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies. Num Pages: 424 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFC; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
"If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine dance dramatically over red-hot coals, and, second, American firewalking, one of the more spectacular activities of New Age psychology. Loring Danforth not only analyzes these rituals in light of the most recent work in medical and symbolic anthropology but also ... Read more
"If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine dance dramatically over red-hot coals, and, second, American firewalking, one of the more spectacular activities of New Age psychology. Loring Danforth not only analyzes these rituals in light of the most recent work in medical and symbolic anthropology but also ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Series
Princeton Modern Greek Studies
Condition
New
Weight
521 g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691028538
SKU
V9780691028538
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
Reviews for Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991 "As a contribution to postmodernism, it reveals the possibilities and paradoxes inherent in that movement. As a contribution to the ethnography of ritual healing, the book confirms the basic theory and provides comparative data."
American Anthropologist
American Anthropologist