A Celebration of Demons

Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka

• Author(s): Bruce Kapferer,
• Publisher: Berg
• Pages: 388
• ISBN_10: 1560980400
  ISBN_13: 9781560980407
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit / Healing / Prayer & Spiritual , Religion / Buddhism / General , Religion / Eastern , Religion / Christian Theology / Angelology & Demonology , Social Science / Anthropology / General ,

Description:... Stressing the importance of performance in the organization of ritual experience, Kapferer reveals that music, dance, and comicdrama are key aesthetic forms in Sinhalese demon ceremonies.