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Subject(s)

• Spiritualism—Iceland—History [Browse]

Summary note

This book explores Icelandic spirit work, known as andleg mal, which features trance and healing practices that span earth and spirit realms, historical eras, scientific and supernatural worldviews, and cross-Atlantic cultures. Based on years of fieldwork conducted in the northern Icelandic town of Akureyri, Bridges between Worlds excavates andleg mal's roots in layers of Icelandic history, and examines how this practice steeped in ancient folklore functions in the modern world. --Publisher description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Keeping track: a glossary of characters
• Bridging worlds with Andleg Mál
• Roots and layers of Andleg Mál
• Science and skepticism, belief and blasphemy
• Skyggnigáfa: the gift that keeps on giving
• Trance work
• Healers and healing
• Leaps of geography and faith.

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ISBN

• 9780190625030 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
• 0190625031 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016004817

OCLC

945231178

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