The woman who wanted to be her father: A case analysis of dybbuk possession in a hasidic community

Yoram Bilu

doi:10.4324/9780429502569

The woman who wanted to be her father: A case analysis of dybbuk possession in a hasidic community

Yoram Bilu

Department of Psychology

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Abstract

Yoram Bilu examines a manifestation of spirit possession that is under reported in the anthropological literature: dybbuk possession among Eastern European Hasidic communities. The author draws on archival and historical documentation of a ninteenth-century event and concludes that this culturally specific possession phenomenon is best understood as a mechanism of social and gender-based resistance rather than as psychological deviance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Across the Boundaries of Belief
Subtitle of host publication	Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	196-210
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9780429971112
ISBN (Print)	9780813326948
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429502569
State	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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