This volume explores the interferences of trance mediums and new technical media to add a new perspective to current debates on the "renaissance of the religious". Situated in the field of media anthropology it follows the question of how spirit possession is transformed by processes of globalization and mass mediation.
Ongoing debates about the "return of religion" have paid little attention to the orgiastic and enthusiastic qualities of religiosity, despite a significant increase in the use of techniques of trance and possession around the globe. This title brings together a range of ethnographic studies on local spiritual and media practices.
