Speaking with Spirits: Indeterminate Multisensory Ritual efficacy

Special Issue of Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft Volume 19, 2-3, Fall/Winter 2024

Guest editor Raquel Romberg

Table of Contents:

“Introduction: Speaking with Spirits: Indeterminate Multisensory Ritual Efficacy”, Raquel Romberg
“Talking with Spirits: Onto-epistemology, Intimacy, and the Force and Tone of Communication”, Conerly Casey
“Multiple Voices and a Single Body: Spirits’ Embodiment, Speech, Discourse and Historiography in an Old Ritual Community of Bhutan”, Dendup Chophel
“Shells that Speak: Divination and its Author”, Knut Graw
“Whispers of Spirits: Tracing the Communication Process in Zār Rituals in Hormozgan Province, Iran”, Maryam Abbasi
“A Moonlit Night: Fairy Practice in the Two Bengals”, Keith Cantú
“Resonant Encounters: Luangan Multisensorial Spirit Communication”, Isabell Herrmans
“Multisensorial Poetic Dramas of Indeterminate Brujería Rituals”, Raquel Romberg
“Afterword: Spirit Presence in the World”, Paul Stoller

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