The Religious Imagination in New Guinea
by: Herdt, Gilbert and Michele Stephen (Eds.)

Softcover. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 262 pages. Explores various expressions of religious fervor such as shamanism, trances, possession, witchcraft and cult activity. Using cultural anthropology and psychoanalysis as a base, the contributors ask how religious imagination connects concepts of the self to ideas of the sacred. Light pencil underlining to about 25 pages.