THE MYSTICAL AND THE MODERN: THE USES OF ORDINARY WRITINGS IN IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION BY ICELANDIC SPIRITUAL MEDIUMS

Christophe Pons (1)

1 IDEMEC - Institut d'ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative

One of the essential characteristics of modernity, particularly in the part of the world we call the West, is the appearance of a process of individuation which necessitates the "invention of the self".

Mots clés: Spiritualism; self narrating; Iceland; Mediums; Individualism; 20'century

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Christophe Pons. THE MYSTICAL AND THE MODERN: THE USES OF ORDINARY WRITINGS IN IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION BY ICELANDIC SPIRITUAL MEDIUMS. Martyn Lyons. Ordinary Writings, Personal Narratives: Writing Practices in 19th and early 20th-century Europe, Peter Lang, pp.85-100, 2007, Ordinary Writings, Personal Narratives: Writing Practices in 19th and early 20th-century Europe. ⟨halshs-01141111⟩