Contemporary Anthropology of Religion: Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational Age

Fjelstad, K.; Hien, N.

Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again and the impact of ritual transnationalism in both countries.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-06-21

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230114937

DOI: 10.1057/9780230119703

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 219