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Developing the Dead: Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo

Developing the Dead: Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo


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Despite its powerful influence on Cuban culture, Espiritismo has often been overlooked by scholars. Developing the Dead is the first in-depth exploration of contemporary Espiritismo in Cuba. Based on extensive fieldwork among religious practitioners and their clients in Havana, this book makes the surprising claim that Spiritist practices are fundamentally a project of developing the self.

When mediums cultivate relationships between the living and the dead, argues Diana Espírito Santo, they develop, learn, sense, dream, and connect to multiple spirits (muertos), expanding the borders of the self. This understanding of selfhood is radically different fromEnlightenment ideas of an autonomous, bounded self and holds fascinating implications for prophecy, healing, and self-consciousness.

Developing the Dead shows how Espiritismo’s self-making process permeates all aspects of life, not only for its own practitioners but also for those of other Afro-Cuban religions.

About the Author :
Diana Espírito Santo is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Review :
"Emphasizes
the confluence of body, spirit world, and experience of self. . . . Places espiritismo
in the context of Cuban class, recent history, colonial experience, struggle
for independence, and the revolution. . . . Recommended."--Choice

"A
detailed and richly nuanced ethnography of Cuban espiritismo."--Journal
of Folklore Research

"Belongs
in the library of anyone interested in those African-based religious traditions
that have been developed in the Americas, especially those that developed in
the Caribbean. It should also be of interest to those willing to widen their
scholarly gaze to include traditions that do not fit neatly into Western,
European philosophical and religious categories."--Nova Religio

"An invaluable reference for scholars working in
Atlantic studies, Religious studies, Latina/o studies, Anthropology of
Religion, Caribbean studies, and African Diaspora studies."--New West
Indian Guide


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780813060781
  • Publisher: University Press of Florida
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Florida
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 720 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0813060788
  • Publisher Date: 30 Aug 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo
  • Width: 152 mm


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