Living Folk Religions  
/edited by Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Aaron Michael Ullrey  
 - New York :  Routledge/T&F,  2023. 
 - xi,351p.  : ill.  ; 23cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/> Living Folk Religions presents cutting-edge contributions from a range of disciplines to examine religious folkways across cultures. This collection embraces the non-elite and non-sanctioned, the oral, fluid, accessible, evolving religions of people (volk) on the ground. Split into five sections, this book covers:<br/>What Is Folk Religion?<br/>Spirit Beings and Deities<br/>Performance and Ritual Praxis<br/>Possession and Exorcism<br/>Health, Healing, and Lifestyle<br/>Topics include demons and ambivalent gods, tree and nature spirits, revolutionary renunciates, oral lore, possession and exorcism, divination, midwestern American spiritualism, festivals, queer sexuality among ritual specialists, the dead returned, vernacular religions, diaspora adaptations, esoteric influences underlying public cultures, unidentified flying objects (UFOs), music and sound experiences, death rituals, and body and wellness cultures. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781032190419 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Religious aspects.<br/>Spiritualism.<br/>Buddhism.<br/>Folk religion.