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. CONNECT & SUPPORT💖 - WEBSITE & NEWSLETTER 💌 https://drangelapuca.com/#newsletter - BECOME MY PATRON! 🎩 https://www.patreon.com/angelapuca - ONE-OFF DONATIONS 💰 https://paypal.me/angelasymposium - JOIN MEMBERSHIPS 👥 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPSbip_LX2AxbGeAQfLp-Ig/join - MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL https://www.youtube.com/@drangelapuca/featured - MY STORE 🛍 https://drangelapuca.com/store - MY MERCH 👕 https://drangelapuca.creator-spring.com/ - Video Trascripts https://www.innersymposium.study/ 💬 FOLLOW ME👣 - YouTube (@drangelapuca)🌟 - Instagram (drangelapuca) 📸 - TikTok (Angela's Symposium) 🎵 - Twitter (@angelapuca11) 🐦 - Facebook (Dr Angela Puca) 👥 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 Music by Erose MusicBand. Check them out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnTOZx3Ce8w