Spirit possession can refer to a spectrum of experiences in which the person involved negotiates with or is overcome by a force such as an ancestor, deity, or spirit that employs the human body to be its vehicle for communicating to human communities. Without an audience, the possession has not effectively transpired because the possessed person is not conscious during the event to report on what has happened. In her original work, she was a villain who met a tragic end because she was jealous of the female lead with her male lead, but after being possessed by her, Yvonne resolves to enjoy the life of a diamond spoon in peace. In his study of two types of possession found in popular religion in four districts of Maharashtra, possession by ghosts and possession by gods, Stanley discusses gendered susceptibility to the entry of ghosts and gods and women's particular receptivity at times of menstruation and childbirth. Detailed descriptions of contrasting events of spirit possession in rural Rajasthan that Gold locates within the context of a sophisticated indigenous ethno-performance theory.

Where information is scarce about women's lives in Asia and the Pacific, we have information about Korean housewives participating in Kut rituals (Kendall, 1985) and the tangki of Taiwan (Wolf, 1992). Because each style has its own formatting nuances that evolve over time and not all information is available for every reference entry or article, Encyclopedia. Gender and Religion, articles on Gender and African Religious Traditions, Gender and North American Indian Religious Tradition; Human Body, article on Human Bodies, Religion, and Gender; New Religious Movements; Religious Experience. De Certeau focuses on the historiographer's problem of studying discourse that is altered using the case of the nuns of Loudun (1632 –1638).From a revalued approach to the power of possession, it is the work, war, and performance of possessions that merit analysis. Studying one of the most important healing deities in Madras, Mariamman, the Smallpox Goddess, Egnor discusses why Smallpox has been deified as a feminine, maternal divinity in Madras, while most of the Sinhalese disease demons took male forms. Some plays depict fake possessions, which the entire audience recognizes as fake and laughs at, while other theatrical performances might spontaneously produce possessions that the audiences regard as authentic. An ethnography of the Meratus Dayaks of Indonesia with special attention given to Oma Adang, a female shaman, and with critical reflection on ethnography and "the gaze. Chajes provides the sociohistorical context of Christian spirit possession and early modern Jewish spirit possession to evaluate the growing presence of possession in Jewish resources of the time.

So also, the devils associated with the dollars of international mining companies in South America are not merely symbols to be interpreted, but rather are working forces in the religious lives of the miners. that begin with the assumption that possessions are abnormal behaviors and result from social, physical, and mental deprivations.An ethnography of peasants in Columbia and Bolivia and their indigenous religious practices regarding the presence of the devil in the money of the capitalist developments in their regions. A comparative study of religions in which women predominate, most of which include spirit possession practices. Methodological argument for comparative study of spirit possession including overview of the field and case studies of spirit possession in Malaysia, Zimbabwe, Greek antiquity, and Hasidic traditions.

Ann Grodzins Gold provides a useful definition and discussion of the term spirit possession in her study of possession in rural Rajasthan (1988, p. Similarly, in The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America (1980), Michael Taussig interprets indigenous spirits as a critical reaction to commodity fetishism in South America. After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police. any complete but temporary domination of a person's body, and the blotting of that person's consciousness, by a distinct alien power of known or unknown origin.Nehanda was revered in the songs of the socialist-inspired armies of the second, successful chimurenga, and the Nehanda mhondoro of the second chimurenga inherited the potent legacy of the first Nehanda. The broad spectrum of roles humans have played in religious history, from mystics to prophets, are all variations on this very central theme. The Villain's Match Is Too Perfect; The Devil's Match Is Too Perfect; The Villain Match Is Too Perfect; The Villain's Match Is Too Perfect; The Villainess' Match Is Too Perfect; The Villainess's Boyfriend Is So Perfect; The Villainess's Date Is Perfect; 恶女的相亲对象太完美了; 悪女のお見合い相手が完璧すぎる; 악녀의 맞선남이 너무 완벽하다 Author(s) :Chae Jooah Genres : Drama - Fantasy - Manhwa - Romance - Webtoons Possessed by the rumored evil woman Yvon Argenthoz'! As Western missionaries and academics began recording information about other cultures, the force and vivacity of spirit possession repeatedly drew authors to describe and discuss possession, producing a tremendous volume of materials. the performative elements of possession have received great attention in Sri Lanka and across South Asia.

Thirteen comparative and interdisciplinary studies of African-based religious systems in the Caribbean, analyzing the nature and liturgies of vodou, Santer ía, Obeah, Quimbois, and Gaga in specific communities in the Caribbean. Discusses the polyvalent Punjabi notion of play and applies this linguistic context to her study of goddesses who play their mediums. Nao was a middle-aged woman whose theology, written by her younger, male colleague while she was in a trance, turned traditional Buddhist wisdom on its head, proclaiming that Nao was The Transformed Male who signaled the arrival of a new era. Doris Bargen (1997) argues that spirit possession was a woman's weapon in medieval Japan because a woman who was spoken-through by a possessing spirit could say things to public audiences that women were not otherwise tolerated for saying.The male has a dark emerald-green throat, a pair of long tail-wires and is adorned with ornamental flank plumes which are deep yellow at their base and fade outwards into white. While anthropologists have invoked performance theory to explore this element of the power of possession, the question of subjectivity is again raised because performance theory largely begins with the assumption that an actor wills herself into a performative mode. In terms of the wars engaged by possessed women's bodies, there are two central types: gender conflict and territorial conflict. Spirit possession has largely been interpreted by scholars as a phenomenon that impacts "traditional people," the poor, the uneducated, and women.