The burning saints : cognition and culture in the fire-walking rituals of the Anastenaria / Dimitris Xygalatas.
Material type: TextSeries: Religion, cognition and culture (Equinox)Publication details: Bristol, CT : Equinox, 2012.Description: xii, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781845539764
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-238) and index.
Tradition in the making -- The ethnographic setting -- Fire-walking in Agia Eleni -- Knowledge and revelation among the Anastenaria -- Ritual and mind -- Costly rituals -- Arousal, emotion and motivation -- Physiology of high-arousal rituals -- Putting it all together.