THE MYSTICAL AND THE MODERN: THE USES OF ORDINARY WRITINGS IN IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION BY ICELANDIC SPIRITUAL MEDIUMS

International audience One of the essential characteristics of modernity, particularly in the part of the world we call the West, is the appearance of a process of individuation which necessitates the "invention of the self".

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pons, Christophe
Other Authors:	Institut d'ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative (IDEMEC), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Martyn Lyons
Format:	Book Part
Language:	English
Published:	HAL CCSD 2007
Subjects:	Spiritualism self narrating Iceland Mediums Individualism 20'century [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology
Online Access:	https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01141111 https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01141111/document https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01141111/file/Halshs%20%20Pons%202007%20The%20Mystical%20and%20the%20Modern.pdf

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Summary:	International audience One of the essential characteristics of modernity, particularly in the part of the world we call the West, is the appearance of a process of individuation which necessitates the "invention of the self".