I. M. Lewis' ECSTATIC RELIGION

I didn't finish this book, but here are the notes I got from the first 100 or so pages.

1. Spirit possession in Africa and Afro-America

2. Studies on trance and healing

3. Erica Bourguignon's work on possession

4. Collections of anthropological work on possession and trance

5. The shaman as the "basis of all religion"

6. A "musicological examination of possession"

7. Nils Holm's "Religious Ecstasy"

8. Ronald Knox's "Enthusiasm"

9. Mystical reluctance

10. T K Oesterreich's "Possession, Demoniacal and Other"

11. The treatment of women's posession

12. Tarantism

13. Tungus shamanism

14. Shamanic seance

15. The global picture of altered consciousness

16. "Marriage" between humans and spirits

17. Ecstasy and authority

18. The shaman's calling

19. Michel Leiris' work on possession

20. Possession and domestic conflict

21. Ichiro Hori's "Folk Religion in Japan"

22. Christianized slave cults and the gods of Africa

23. Trinidad's Shango cult

24. Voodoo and resistance

25. Voodoo syncretism

26. European shamans