Post-secular Anthropology as Recognition and the Limits of Understanding: Responding to Experiences of Jinn Possession in Morocco.
This article contributes to discussions around a post-secular anthropology that seek to engage seriously with religious traditions and theology. Conversations in Morocco with Muslims who experienced possession by jinn spirits point to the importance of recognition. To understand those experiences ri...
| Publicado en: | Social Analysis Vol. 67; no. 2; pp. 23 - 41 |
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Berghahn Books
2023
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