First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spirits in Culture, History and Mind reintegrates spirits into comparative theories of religion, which have tended to focus on institutionalized forms of belief

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wide criticism both from Western and Eastern scholars.

A number of cases of serious child abuse have resulted from beliefs that children may be possessed by evil spirits and may then be given the power to bewitch ot