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A Time Of Lost Gods
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Author : Emily Ng
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2020-05-12
A Time Of Lost Gods written by Emily Ng and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-12 with Social Science categories.
Traversing visible and invisible realms, A Time of Lost Gods attends to profound rereadings of politics, religion, and madness in the cosmic accounts of spirit mediumship. Drawing on research across a temple, a psychiatric unit, and the home altars of spirit mediums in a rural county of China’s Central Plain, it asks: What ghostly forms emerge after the death of Mao and the so-called end of history? The story of religion in China since the market reforms of the late 1970s is often told through its destruction under Mao and relative flourishing thereafter. Here, those who engage in mediumship offer a different history of the present. They approach Mao’s reign not simply as an earthly secular rule, but an exceptional interval of divine sovereignty, after which the cosmos collapsed into chaos. Caught between a fading era and an ever-receding horizon, those “left behind” by labor outmigration refigure the evacuated hometown as an ethical-spiritual center to come, amidst a proliferation of madness-inducing spirits. Following pronouncements of China’s rise, and in the wake of what Chinese intellectuals termed semicolonialism, the stories here tell of spirit mediums, patients, and psychiatrists caught in a shared dilemma, in a time when gods have lost their way.
A Time Of Lost Gods
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Author : Emily Ng
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2020-05-12
A Time Of Lost Gods written by Emily Ng and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-12 with Social Science categories.
Traversing visible and invisible realms, A Time of Lost Gods attends to profound rereadings of politics, religion, and madness in the cosmic accounts of spirit mediumship. Drawing on research across a temple, a psychiatric unit, and the home altars of spirit mediums in a rural county of China’s Central Plain, it asks: What ghostly forms emerge after the death of Mao and the so-called end of history? The story of religion in China since the market reforms of the late 1970s is often told through its destruction under Mao and relative flourishing thereafter. Here, those who engage in mediumship offer a different history of the present. They approach Mao’s reign not simply as an earthly secular rule, but an exceptional interval of divine sovereignty, after which the cosmos collapsed into chaos. Caught between a fading era and an ever-receding horizon, those “left behind” by labor outmigration refigure the evacuated hometown as an ethical-spiritual center to come, amidst a proliferation of madness-inducing spirits. Following pronouncements of China’s rise, and in the wake of what Chinese intellectuals termed semicolonialism, the stories here tell of spirit mediums, patients, and psychiatrists caught in a shared dilemma, in a time when gods have lost their way.
A Time Of Lost Gods
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Author : Emily Karyie Ng
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
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A Time of Lost Gods explores madness, haunting, and mediumship in a rural county of China’s Henan province. Drawing on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, I find that that given the economic and symbolic dispossession accompanying post-Reform rural outmigration, spirit mediums register psychiatric symptoms as signs of moral-cosmological collapse. I consider this in light of a precarious cosmology, wherein the very world of human and nonhuman persons and relationships are experienced as deeply destabilized. This sense of precarity is linked to the loss of Mao as a divine anti-colonial figure, evoking questions of socialist sovereignty alongside those of heavenly mandate. According to the spirit mediums, the Chairman’s death inaugurated the return of demons and deities, none of whom can be fully trusted, as they now mirror the duplicity of the human realm after market reforms. Mediums must work to discern between the true and false, the virtuous and malicious, amid a proliferation of madness-inducing spirits. This contemporary cosmology, I suggest, simultaneously registers the national imaginary of Henan as a quintessential land-locked agricultural province “left behind” in a post-Reform regime of value, and opens up an inverted figuring of the rural as a potential ethico-spiritual center, awaiting apocalyptic renewal. To think with the mediums is to dwell on a historical present of hesitant horizons, at once beneath and beyond discourses of global mental health and religious revival. Across the psychiatric ward of the county hospital, local temples, and home altars of spirit mediums, betrayals of economy and kinship are transmitted through multiple genres of time. In mediumship, the progressive time of the socialist promise merges with a cyclical mode of dynastic anticipation, together carried in a spectral temporality of returns. In the clinic, symptomatic fragments of intergenerational impasse intermingle with the prognostic temporality of diagnostic modernity. After a long century of exasperated responses to the threat of colonial seizure, I approach patients, spirit mediums, and psychiatrists as figures caught in a shared dilemma, in a time when gods have lost their way.
Lost Gods
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Author : John Marco Allegro
language : en
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Release Date : 1977
Lost Gods written by John Marco Allegro and has been published by Michael Joseph this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Religion categories.
The Lost Gods
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Author : Francesca Simon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-01
The Lost Gods written by Francesca Simon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with Children's stories categories.
In The Sleeping Army, Freya went to Hel and back. She fought dragons, fled fire and outwitted giants - all to restore eternal youth to the Norse Gods. But now they're back, does anyone care?The Gods' popularity on earth is waning, and without regular worship, their powers are fading fast and their ancient enemies, the Frost Giants, are stirring. So the Gods hatch a plan - they'll come back down to earth, and they'll pursue a very different kind of popularity. They're going to become celebrities. A rollicking, thrilling and hilarious ride, The Lost Gods takes up where the Sleeping Army left off and takes us back to Simon's brilliantly-imagined modern Norse England.
Lost Gods
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Author : John Marco Allegro
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Lost Gods written by John Marco Allegro and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Religion categories.
Lost Gods
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Author : Anna Smith Spark
language : en
Publisher: Kristell Ink
Release Date : 2021-03
Lost Gods written by Anna Smith Spark and has been published by Kristell Ink this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03 with categories.
They have slept for centuries. Buried. Forgotten. Lost. Until they awake. Or are awoken... When the deities of old return, will they bring blessings or destruction to a time that no longer remembers them? Should they be left to lie in peace, or used for our own ends? Are they gods, or monsters? What lies out there in the realms of the lost gods? Featuring stories by Anna Smith Spark, Courtney Privett, Gaie Sebold, Laura Gregory, Charlotte Bond, Steven Poore, Terry Grimwood, Kerry Buchanan, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, Ellen Crosháin, Allen Stroud, Chris Halliday, Lindsay Duncan & Gareth Lewis.
Lost Gods
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Author : Tim Hardie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
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Lost Gods
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Author : Micah Yongo
language : en
Publisher: Angry Robot
Release Date : 2018-07-03
Lost Gods written by Micah Yongo and has been published by Angry Robot this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-03 with Fiction categories.
Neythan is one of five young warriors trained and raised together by a mysterious brotherhood of assassins known as the ShedaÕm. When Neythan is framed for the murder of his closest friend, he pursues his betrayer _ and in so doing learns thereÍs far more to the Brotherhood, and the machinations of the rulers of the warring kingdoms, than heÍd ever thought possible. His journey will lead him across the five realms, from the Forest of Silences to the Ash Plains of Calapaar, and reveal the breaches that lie beneath the world, and the hidden truths of his oath.
Lost Gods
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Author :
language : hu
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
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