Felicitas Goodman

Felicitas Goodman

Felicitas D. Goodman (1914–2005) was a Hungarian-born linguist and anthropologist. She was a highly regarded expert in linguistics and anthropology and researched and explored ritual body postures for many years. She studied the phenomenon of "speaking in tongues" in Pentecostal congregations in Mexico. She is the author of such well-received books as Speaking in Tongues and Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences. Her work has been published mostly in the United States and Germany.

Read more about Felicitas Goodman:  Biography, Glossolalia, The Cuyamungue Institute

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