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"Seven oni stories from medieval Japan, translated for an English-speaking audience. In Japanese culture, oni are ubiquitous supernatural creatures, some great and some small, some mischievous, others dangerous, who play important roles in literature, lore, and folk belief"--Provided by publisher.

Spirits. --- Supernatural. --- Legends --- Folklore --- Demonology --- Folk-lore, Japanese --- Religion --- Miracles --- Invisible world --- Supernatural --- Fear of spirits

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This book investigates the entangled relations between people's daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing on the practices of spirit (bta) worship in the coastal area of Karnataka, it examines the relationship between people and deities. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book links important anthropological theories on personhood, perspectives, transactions, and gift-exchanges together with the Gestaltkreis theory of Viktor von Weizscker. First, it examines the relations between bta worship and land tenure, matriliny, and hierarchy in the society. It then explores the reflexive relationship between modern law and current practices based on conventional law, before examining new developments in bta worship with the rise of mega-industries and environmental movements. Furthermore, this book sheds light on the struggles and endeavours of the people who create and recreate their relations with the realm of sacred wildness, as well as the formations and transformations of the umwelt in perpetual social-political transition. Modernity and Spirit Worship in India will be of interest to academics in the field of anthropology, religious studies and the dynamics of religion, and South Asian Culture and Society.

Worship. --- Spirits. --- India --- Religion. --- Invisible world --- Supernatural --- Fear of spirits --- Cult --- Cultus --- Religion --- Theology, Practical --- Fire-worshipers --- Regional studies

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Spirits – airy, volatile ‘subtle bodies' – occupied a central place in early modern European culture. At the edge of the visible and perceptible, spiritus could signify a broad variety of subtle substances, both natural and divine: the vapours moving inside the body, the elements of air and fire, angels, demons and spectres, the Holy Spirit and the human soul. Spirits functioned as intermediaries between two opposite worlds with continually shifting borders. This book investigates specific meanings and uses of spiritus in a variety of early modern disciplines and fields – physiology, psychology, alchemy, theology, demonology, art theory, music theory, novels and the literature on love – thus revisiting the ambivalent history of a central ancient concept in a period of crisis and change. Contributors include: Wietse de Boer, Sven Dupré, Jennifer Frangos, Axel Christoph Gampp, Christine Göttler, Berthold Hub, Dawn Morgan, Wolfgang Neuber, Bret Rothstein, Rose Marie San Juan, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Justin E. H. Smith, Paul J. Smith, Thijs Weststeijn, and Sarah F. Williams.

Geesten. --- Verbeelding. --- Erscheinungen. --- Geist. --- Geisterglaube. --- Gespenst. --- Spuk. --- Unsichtbarkeit. --- Vision. --- Spirits --- Invisible world --- Supernatural --- Fear of spirits --- History. --- Europa (geografie) --- Europe --- Civilization.

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Ghosts --- Spirits --- Mythology --- Folklore --- Religions --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Invisible world --- Supernatural --- Fear of spirits --- Phantoms --- Specters --- Spectres --- Apparitions

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Magic --- Powers (Christian theology) --- Power (Christian theology) --- Biblical teaching. --- 227.1*4 --- -Power (Christian theology) --- -Powers (Christian theology) --- -Invisible world --- Supernatural (Theology) --- Power (Theology) --- Christian sociology --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- Brief van Paulus aan de Efesiërs --- Biblical teaching --- -Brief van Paulus aan de Efesiërs --- 227.1*4 Brief van Paulus aan de Efesiërs --- -227.1*4 Brief van Paulus aan de Efesiërs --- Invisible world --- Bible. --- Ebesosŏ (Book of the New Testament) --- Epheserbrief (Book of the New Testament) --- Ephesians (Book of the New Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible. Ephesians --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Magic - Biblical teaching. --- Powers (Christian theology) - Biblical teaching. --- Power (Christian theology) - Biblical teaching.