(...) particular kinds of... «Possession»
Napoli3 октября 2016(...) particular kinds of "deprivation" encourage the development of religious movements. (...) deprivation consists of any and all of the ways that an individual or group may feel disadvantaged in comparison either to other individuals or groups or to an internalized set of values. (...) Religions of the revival type appear in times of social stress and as society becomes structures, formal organization takes over. (...) the inspirational type of religion could present a source of instability to a stable society and an organized religion. (...) such inspirational religions may involve the concept of possession trance, or in quite a different way, the inspirational source of the religious message may come in the form of a prophet's vision.
(...) possession-trance cults as they exist in our own society, in the form of neo-Pentecostalism and to some extent spiritualism, are signs of crisis, expressions of needs. They do not appear to be solutions to the problems of society. They are expressions of anxiety, together with many of the other signs that abound. The interesting aspect of all of this is primarily the observation that under certain type of stress many individuals will not only turn to religion for help, but specifically to types of religious forms that appear to provide profound emotional catharsis and the kind of conversion experience and commitment that reach deep into the person's unconscious. The individual abandons his conscious control over his self temporarily in psychologically regressive behaviour to allow what he believes to be a more powerful force to take over his body and his tongue and to act through him.
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