Spirits without Borders Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational Age
Description
Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again and the impact of ritual transnationalism in both countries.
Keywords
Social ScienceRegional StudiesAnthropologyCultural & SocialSociology of ReligionReligionSpiritualitySociology
2011Book
Author(s)Karen Fjelstad
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9780230114937
LanguageEnglish
