ARC Workshop 2011
Ethnographic Approaches to Mediumship

Presentations
A complete publication of the presentations will follow shortly

Opening: ARC Workshop Presentation
Fiona Bowie, University of Bristol, Afterlife Research Centre
Mediumship, Trance and the Afterlife
Jack Hunter, University of Bristol, Afterlife Research Centre
Restoring the Relation to the Spirit World.Violence and Desire in Punu Trance-dance Performances
Carine Plancke, College de France
Spiritual Experience and Identity in Modern British Spirit Mediumship
Hannah Gilbert, University of York
Spirit Possession and Telepathic Hypnosis
Terence Palmer, University of Bangor
Master Sun, Master Moon: Complementary Forms of Mediumship among the Jaguares of the Vale do Amanhecer
Emily Pierini, University of Bristol, Afterlife Research Centre
The Discourse of being ‘possessed’ in Brazil: speaking about mediumship, trance and possession in Afro-Brazilian religions
Bettina E. Schmidt, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Sensing the Divine: Illness and Meaning Making amongst Members of an Anglican Spirituality Group
Jane Derges, UCL
Shamanism, Near-Death Experience, and Afterlife Conceptions in Indigenous Societies: A Theoretically Eclectic Ethnohistorical Approach
Gregory Shushan, University of Oxford
Afterlife Geographies and the Nature of Evidence
Fiona Bowie, University of Bristol, Afterlife Research Centre