Possessed by Jealousy - Part 1 (Female Body Possession Erotica)

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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. With reference to Bakhtin, Henderson studies heteroglossia as a literary device in black women's writing. Provides a feminist critique of Victor Turner's theory of liminality and evaluates the pneumatological practices among Christian women in the Independent Church Movement in West Africa. The lesser bird-of-paradise is distributed throughout forests of northern New Guinea, and the nearby islands of Misool and Yapen. Egnor discusses the negotiated relationship between Mariamman and Sarasvati, her servant, and traces the changing role of Mariamman with the eradication of smallpox.

Islamic traditions in the Middle East, Saharan Africa, Pakistan, and India describe women's predisposition to possession by jinn and regional spirits such as the hantu of Malay (Ong, 1987) and emphasize how women's possession activities are tolerated, although authorities address women's need to maintain vigilance through prayer and sanctity to avoid possession. 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. A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and possession. A troubled priest attempts to exorcise the soul of a tourist who has been possessed by the Devil after witnessing supernatural events at a Spanish villa. In many vodou traditions the possessed person is considered to be a chwal, or horse, who is mounted by her spirits (Brown, 1987, p.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. This prevalence of material is particularly important in the study of women's religious lives because the records provide information when other references are minimal or nonexistent. Ethnographic study of the relationship between spirit mediums and socialist-inspired fighters during the 1960s and 1970s battle for Zimbabwe's independence from the White Rhodesian Front. Developing the historical context in which a growing Spiritualist movement coincided with the burgeoning women's suffrage movement, Braude argues that the Spiritualist platform provided women with a place for public speaking and provided reassurances for the public regarding their recently deceased family and friends in a time of national turmoil.

In the case of the Shona in Zimbabwe, spirit possession by powerful land-governing ancestors ( mhondoro ) was largely the remit of men, but two women who were possessed by the spirit of Nehanda, a female ancestor of an early Shona dynasty, were central to the struggle for indigenous rule (Lan, 1985; Keller, 2001). A comparative study of religions in which women predominate, most of which include spirit possession practices. Five people receive an anonymous letter revealing a secret of theirs and inviting them to come stay at a mansion that houses a clinic run by a corrupt doctor who experiments on the brain of his comatose son.From a revalued perspective, however, the religious person is approached as a training and disciplining person, whose body is prepared to enact the will of its deity, and thus there is no viable distinction between a religious and a political struggle. 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.