title: Adorcism
text: # Adorcism
  
  In the sociology of religion, Luc de Heusch coined the term adorcism for practices to placate or accommodate spiritual entities in a possessed person or place. Unlike exorcism, the relationship with the entities is potentially positive. This is sometimes used as initiation into a spirit cult.
  
  Jean-Michel Oughourlian defines adorcism as "voluntary, desired, and curative possessions".
  
  