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Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement - Princeton Modern Greek Studies
Loring M. Danforth
Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement - Princeton Modern Greek Studies
Loring M. Danforth
Evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing. This book includes the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine dance dramatically over red-hot coals, and, American firewalking, one of the more spectacular activities of New Age psychology.
352 pages, Ill.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 21, 1989 |
ISBN13 | 9780691028538 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 424 |
Dimensions | 160 × 235 × 21 mm · 522 g |
Language | English |
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