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By:Kristin C. Bloomer
Published on 2017 by Oxford University Press

In 2001, in the metropolis of Chennai, a boy named Alex was in his hospital bed, sick with fever, when Mary appeared to him and told him to walk. At home later, he felt Mary enter his body. Soon, his older cousin Rosalind also showed signs of Marian possession. Mary told them that her name was |Jecintho.| In 2004, another young woman, in another part of Chennai, also became possessed by Jecintho and began exhibiting signs of stigmata. Possessed by the Virgin is an ethnographic account of Marian possession, healing, and exorcism among Catholics and Hindus in southeast India. Following the lives of three Tamil, Roman Catholic women for more than a decade, Kristin C. Boomer attends to the women's own descriptions of their experience with Marian possession, as well to those people who came to them for healing. Possessed by the Virgin investigates how possession is possible and in what contexts such experiences can be read as authentic. Roman Catholic officials have responded in various ways: banning certain activities while promoting others. That they do so reflects the complicated relationship of the Roman Catholic Church with non-Christian religious practices on the Indian subcontinent, where |possession| (a term introduced by missionaries) involving deities and spirits has long been common. Bloomer explores questions of agency, gender, subjectivity, and social power, as well as the complicated relationship between the ethnographer and the |other| in post-colonial south India.

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