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                ARC Workshop 2011
                Ethnographic Approaches to Mediumship

                Programme

                Abstracts

                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
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