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The Hammer and the Flute : Women, Power, and Spirit Possession by Mary Keller is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
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Award for the Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion Feminist theory and postcolonial theory share an interest in developing theoretical frameworks for describing and evaluating subjectivity comparatively, especially with regard to non-autonomous models of agency. As a historian of religions, Mary Keller uses the figure of the "possessed woman" to analyze a subject that is spoken-through rather than speaking and whose will is the will of the ancestor, d
Who reads The Hammer and the Flute : Women, Power, and Spirit Possession?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Mary Keller
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801881886
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Science, Body Mind & Spirit
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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