Trance, inspiration, possession: connecting segments
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2019-3-8-28
Abstract
One of the most important phenomena that unite both religious and artistic culture is a complex of unusual mental states of a person, which can be grasped by such concepts as trance, inspiration, embracing, obsession.
They cover a very wide range of cultural patterns, beliefs and practices. Various religious communities, churches, organizations, movements in various ways describe, interpret and evaluate specific cases of such conditions, their variants and modifications differently. In this journal, we discuss several aspects of ideas and practices related to the concepts of “trance”, “obsession”, «spirit-posses-sion» and close to them “inspiration”, “bliss”, “sacred madness”, “ecstasy”, etc., or otherwise involved in different genres of performing arts. The introduction contains a number of hypotheses about their essence and the mechanism of their manifestation. Our main task is to designate areas of intersection of unusual states of mind and their manifestations in religion and art.
About the Author
S. I. Ryzhakova
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Science
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
SvetlanaI. Ryzhakova - Dr. ofSci. (History).
Bld. 32A, Leninsky av., Moscow, 119991
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Ryzhakova S.I. Trance, inspiration, possession: connecting segments. Studia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion. 2019;(3):8-28. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2019-3-8-28
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