The Familial Occult -

The Familial Occult

Explorations at the Margins of Critical Autoethnography

Alexandra Coțofană (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
206 Seiten
2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-175-3 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. Those with backgrounds in the familial occult often experience a series of conflicting relationships and different ways of interacting with binaries such as the subjective and objective, a powerful conceptual couple still governing academic thinking. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprentice in an occult practice, little yet has been published in the academic literature about growing up with the occult.

Alexandra Coțofană is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. Prior to joining Zayed University, she held a Lectureship in History and Anthropology at Butler University.

List of Figures



Introduction: “How Does That Make You Feel?” Writing about the Familial Occult as Therapy

Alexandra Coțofană



Chapter 1. A Chinese American Religious Healer: Towards Filial Ethnography

Kin Cheung



Chapter 2. I am My Mother’s Son: Revelations of the Divine

Earl Clarence L. Jimenez



Chapter 3. Of Bibles and Broads: The familial occult as Academic Lens

Alexandra Coțofană



Chapter 4. Facing My Genies: A Commute between Self, Familial Spirits, and Anthropology

Kamal Feriali



Chapter 5. On Familial Occultism

James M. Nyce



Chapter 6. The Familial Occult in Yakutia: Changeling Children and Tricking Demons

Natalya Khokholova



Chapter 7. Can Ethnography of the Occult Be Transformed into Occult Ethnography? Contextualizing a Local Religious Practice in Abkhazia

Rita Kuznetsova and Igor Kuznetsov



Chapter 8. “My father was a Reader”: Practices of Folk Medicine in Northern Sweden

Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist and Johan Wedel



Conclusion



References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie EASA Series
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-80539-175-5 / 1805391755
ISBN-13 978-1-80539-175-3 / 9781805391753
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