October 18, 2024
4:00PM - 5:30PM
160 Pomerene Hall
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2024-10-18 16:00:00
2024-10-18 17:30:00
Evicting the Landlords: Spirits and the Spirit of Capitalism Reconsidered
Drawing on recent anthropological, folkloric and historical attention to land-spirits, house-spirits and other "small gods," Michael Ostling (Religious Studies, Arizona State University) will reconsider the shift from a spirit-haunted world to a world empty of spirits in terms of exorcism and eviction. When and why does a community seek to free itself of its preternatural landlords, and when and why might they regret those landlords' absence?Details
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2024-10-18 16:00:00
2024-10-18 17:30:00
Evicting the Landlords: Spirits and the Spirit of Capitalism Reconsidered
Drawing on recent anthropological, folkloric and historical attention to land-spirits, house-spirits and other "small gods," Michael Ostling (Religious Studies, Arizona State University) will reconsider the shift from a spirit-haunted world to a world empty of spirits in terms of exorcism and eviction. When and why does a community seek to free itself of its preternatural landlords, and when and why might they regret those landlords' absence?Details
160 Pomerene Hall
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America/New_York
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Drawing on recent anthropological, folkloric and historical attention to land-spirits, house-spirits and other "small gods," Michael Ostling (Religious Studies, Arizona State University) will reconsider the shift from a spirit-haunted world to a world empty of spirits in terms of exorcism and eviction. When and why does a community seek to free itself of its preternatural landlords, and when and why might they regret those landlords' absence?
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