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Possession in voodoo - perspective of psychology and science of religion
KRONIKA, Ondřej Alexandr
The work concentrates on going through possesion conected with professing Haitian voodoo. Theoretical part provides an insight to this issue by usig view of religion psychology and transpersonal psychology orientation. There´s a part devoted to types of religous experiences, to problems of changed mind levels, psycho-spiritul crisis, etc. By using view of comparable religious, possession is also presented as a phenomemon which occures across different cultures. Possession is mainly presented in context of Haitian voodoo, which takes a separate. Quantitative research was choosen for practical part of work. In form of half-structured interview, there were mapped religion experiences of persons who have experiences with possission referring to professiong and practicing Haitian voodoo. Experiences of 4 respondents are observed by a psychological view. Research primarily focuses on psychical processes and symptoms connected with experiences with voodoo possession. Wider context as motives for making possission, circumstances when changed mind level can occurs, or influences which can endure from possession state even after the experience subsudes, is also taken into consideration.

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