Edith Turner is an anthropologist engaged in the study of ritual, religion and consciousness. She has been researching the field of symbol and ritual for 58 years, formerly in collaboration with Victor Turner. Edith Turner has researched traditional healing and its ritual implications, initiations in Africa, celebrations and festivals in the Americas, Europe, and the far north, and pilgrimage in Central America, Europe, and Asia.
Author of many books, among them: ” Heart of Lightness: The Life of an Anthropologist”, “Among the Healers: Stories of Spiritual and Ritual Healing Around the World”, and her latest “Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy”.

http://anthropology.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/elt9w

Edith speaks with Joanna about what unites us; religions as experience; the reality of spirits; expanding the paradigm of reality;  the spiritual human potential; “the heart of lightness”; the organicity of spiritual traditions; communitas: collective joy; aging & complexity; remembering Victor Turner; a detective of the Spirit…

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