The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religious Ecstasy

Introduction. Alison Marshall (Brandon University, Canada) Rubina Ramji (Cape Brenton University, Canada) and Michael Wilkson (Trinity Western University, Canada)

I. Ecstasy as Intoxication
1. A Tale of Two Ecstasies: A History of Drug-induced Spirituality, Alison Marshall (Brandon University, Canada)
2. The Hasidic Nigun: Grounding Ecstatic Religion in the Ascents of Past Leaders, Gordon Dale (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, USA)
3. The Sufi Path: Finding God through Ecstasy and Intoxication, Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University, Canada)

II. Ecstasy as Spirit Possession
4. Go Tielwa: Ancestral Spirit Possession and Exorcism in Southern Africa, Mogomme Alpheus Masoga (University of the Free State, South Africa)
5. Stranger Things: Spirit Mediumship and Spirit Possession in China, Alison Marshall (Brandon University, Canada)
6. Expressions of Black Identity: Santer­a and Rural Afro-Cuban Ecstatic Experiences of Ecstasy, Aleksandra Gracjasz (Leiden University, Netherlands)
7. Manifesting the Divine Mother: âMadrasiâ Music, Mediums and the Politics of Ecstatic Sonic Presence Within Indo-Caribbean Religions, Stephanie Lou George (Hunter College, USA)
8. On Ensoulment: The Spirit of Ecstatic Objects, Carles Salazar (Universitat de Lleida, Spain), and Jaume F. Simon-Contra (Artist, Spain)

III. Ecstasy as Charisma
9. Pentecostalism, Ecstasy, and Social Engagement, Michael Wilkson (Trinity Western University, Canada)
10. Charisma and Ecstasy in Charismatic Christianity, Michael Wilkson (Trinity Western University, Canada) and Peter Althouse (Oral Roberts University, USA)
11. Aimee Semple McPherson: A Woman on Fire! Wendy L. Fletcher (Renison University College, Canada)
12. Demonic Possession and the Holy Spirit: Insights into the Contested Debate of Ecstatic Religious Experiences in Brazil, Bettina E. Schmidt (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)

IV. Modern Manifestations
13. Healing Illness at the End of the World: A Millenarian New Religion in Post-war Japan, Takashi Miura, (University of Arizona, USA)
14. The Evolution of Jewish Ecstatic Religion from Abraham Abulafiaâs Ecstatic Kabbalah to Contemporary Kabbalah in Israel, Federico Dal Bo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
15. American Psychedelic Buddhism as Heterodox Ecstatic Religion. D. E. Osto (Massey University, New Zealand)
16. 'We Will Always Burn the Man': Moving the Ecstatic Moment of Burning Man into Virtual Reality, Sharday Mosurinjohn (Queens University, Canada), J Jordan Loewen-Col³n (Queenâs University, Canada), and Amarnath Amarasingam (Queens University, Canada)
17. Distributive Effervescence and Late Modern Shamanisms: Ecstatic Emotional Energy in Secularizing Societies, F. LeRon Shults (University of Agder, Norway)

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