Trance, Healing, and Hallucination: Three Field Studies in Religious Experience, by Goodman...
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Trance, Healing, and Hallucination: Three Field Studies in Religious Experience, by Goodman, Henney, & Pressel. 1974 hardcover. 388 pages. Very nice condition, ex-library.
The three field studies in this book provide a psychological and anthropological study of spirit possession in contemporary religious sects in the Caribbean and in Central and South America. The studies are:
1. Spirit-possession belief and trance behavior in two fundamentalist groups in St. Vincent.
2. Umbanda trance and possession in Sao Paulo Brazil.
3. Disturbances in the Apostolic Church: A trance-based upheaval in Yucatan.