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1) Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991"
"If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine dance dramatically over red-hot coals, and, second,...
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This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of exhumation. These rituals help Greek villagers face the universal paradox of mourning: how can the living sustain relationships with the dead and at the same time bring them to an end, in order to continue...
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"Honorable Mention for the 1997 Senior Book Award of the American Ethnological Society" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1996" Loring M. Danforth is Professor of Anthropology at Bates College. He is the author of The Death Rituals of Rural Greece and Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement, both available from Princeton University Press.
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