OPPRESSION VS OBSESSION VS POSSESSION: Vol 4-8 Three kinds of demonic manifestations and how demons achieve this.

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Prudence is necessary in determining the actuality of a possession. The possessed person is not responsible for acts committed while he is under diabolical influences. Possession is Satan’s supreme act of power, which he employs to demonstrate his superiority over man and his rebellion against God. a b Bhasvar, Ventriglio & Dinesh (2016), pp.551–559. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFBhasvarVentriglioDinesh2016 ( help) McIntosh, Janet (March 2004). "Reluctant Muslims: embodied hegemony and moral resistance in a Giriama spirit possession complex". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 10 (1): 91–112. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2004.00181.x. De Heusch, Luc (2 October 2007). "Jean Rouch and the Birth of Visual Anthropology: A Brief History of the Comité international du film ethnographique". Visual Anthropology. 20 (5): 365–386. doi: 10.1080/08949460701424155. S2CID 143785372.

years -- a period of time that is extremely short when contrasted with eternity -- be sent to Hell, where

it likely is -- demonic in nature -- and call on the most Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ to make it Evil spirits don’t waltz into people’s lives when they feel like it. They have to be invited into your home or life. Why does God permit diabolical possession? The answer isn’t easy, but it likely correlates to the mysterious answer to a similar question, “Why does God permit evil?” Short answer from Saint Paul, “where sin abounded, grace did more abound” (Rom 5:20). Somehow in the midst of evil the greater power of God will in time be revealed.

Nissinen also recorded that music was an essential part to these trance-ceremonies in the Ancient Near-East and so it can be reconstructed it could have been found in Yahwism. [89] Instruments such as the tambourine, harps, lyres, and flutes may have been utilized, as those were common instruments in Ancient Israel. [91] Along with music, incense may have also been used, either as an offering, or to be used as an entheogen, or possibly as both. Henderson, J. (1981). Exorcism and Possession in Psychotherapy Practice. Vol.2. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. pp.129–134.

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The anthropologist I.M. Lewis noted that women are more likely to be involved in spirit possession cults than men are, and postulated that such cults act as a means of compensation for their exclusion from other spheres within their respective cultures. [121] Physical anthropology [ edit ] In the Old Testament, we would say that Job was not possessed but oppressed by demons—his entire family was killed and he was afflicted with infirmities. Similarly, in the New Testament, we see a woman afflicted by a spirit of infirmity (Luke 13). She did not display the signs of possession—great strength or knowledge that she would not normally have-but Satan had “bound” her in some way. Ong A. The production of possession: Spirits and the multinational corporation in Malaysia. American Ethnologist 1988; 15:28-42. The works of Jean Rouch, Germaine Dieterlen, and Marcel Griaule have been extensively cited in research studies on possession in Western Africa that extended to Brazil and North America due to the slave trade. [119] [120] Szombathy, Zoltan (2014). "Exorcism". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol.3. doi: 10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_26268. ISBN 9789004269637.