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Academic analyses of spiritual phenomena have frequently positioned an emphasis on ideals and ideologies and prioritized the certainty of spiritual symbols over the cloth of symbolization. throughout the ethnographic research of various modern non secular varieties, Making Spirits questions the presumed separation of spirit and topic, and sheds mild at the relational dynamics among religious and fabric domain names, at the mechanisms and strategies in which they 'make' one another. Such reciprocal interactions and alterations among the non secular and the cloth are glaring throughout spirit mediums, fetishes and formality gadgets in Cuba, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Bolivia, Japan and crucial Africa. With new insights that problem the taken-for-granted different types of materiality and transcendence, factor and spirit, this booklet can be useful for students in non secular reports, comparative faith, anthropology and sociology.

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