SPIRIT POSSESSION and SHAMANISM in Brazil. Interview with Prof Bettina Schmidt

In this interview, Prof Bettina Schmidt talks about:

- How to understand Spirit Possession using a context-sensitive approach (deictic)

- The difference between how scholars and practitioners define religious experiences

- How to define Shamanism and the evolution of its semantics

- Her Fieldwork in Brazil with ecstatic religions.

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Bettina's Contact details:

Prof Bettina Schmidt

Director of the Religious Experience Research Centre

Institute of Education and Humanities

University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Lampeter, UK

Email: [email protected]

STUDIES MENTIONED IN THE INTERVIEW

Lambek, M. (2009) ‘Provincializing God? Provocations from an anthropology of religion’, in de Vries, H. (ed), Religion: Beyond a Concept, Fordham Univ Press, pp. 120–138.

Wilson, D. G. (2013) Redefining Shamanisms: Spiritualist Mediums And Other Traditional Shamans As Apprenticeship Outcomes, Bloomsbury Academic.

BETTINA'S PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Schmidt, Bettina E.

2016, co-ed. with Stephen Engler Handbook of Contemporary Brazilian Religions (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, vol. 13) DenHague: Brill.

2016, edited The Study of Religious Experience: Approaches and Methodologies. Durham: Equinox.

2016 Spirits and Trance in Brazil: Anthropology of Religious Experiences. London: Bloomsbury.

2010, co- edited with Lucy Huskinson Spirit Possession and Trance: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Continuum Advances in Religious Studies series). London: Continuum.

2008 Caribbean Diaspora in the USA: Diversity of Caribbean Religions in New York City. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate.

ARTICLES (each with DOI):

2017 Varieties of Non-Ordinary Experiences in Brazil – A Critical Review of the Contribution of Studies of ‘Religious Experience’ to the Study of Religion. International Journal for Latin American Religion, Vol. 1, pp.

DOI 10.1007/s41603-017-0006-5

2016 Contemporary Religions in Brazil. Oxford Handbooks Online, Editor-in-Chief Mark Juergensmeyer. New York: Oxford University Press. Online Publication Date: Jul 2016.

DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935420.013.50.

2015 Spirit Mediumship in Brazil: The Controversy about Semi-Conscious Mediums. In: DISKUS: The Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, Vol. 17 (2), pp. 38-53.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18792/diskus.v17i2.70

00:00 Introduction: Prof Bettina Schmidt

01:42 Deictic methodology

09:35 What is Glocalise?

10:50 Mediumship is not possession

12:04 Discrepancy between belief and action

14:51 Defining Shamanism

18:56 Influence of Saints

22:00 Shamanism generally

26:52 Support Angela’s Symposium

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