Redefining Shamanisms
Spiritualist Mediums and Other Traditional Shamans as Apprenticeship Outcomes
Spiritualism and mediumship are often regarded as the product of lingering superstition in the Victorian era, and as having limited relevance in modern Anglo-American society. Scholarship to date which has considered Spiritualism as a distinct religious tradition has focussed on analysing the phenomenon in terms of spirit possession only. This volume analyses the development of shamanism (communication with the spiritual world) as a concept within North American English-speaking scholarship, with particular focus on Mircea Eliade's influential cross-cultural presentation of shamanism. By re-examining the work of Sergei Shirokogoroff, one of E…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4411-5876-5
- EAN: 9781441158765
- Produktnummer: 14494255
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 296 KB
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David Gordon Wilson is a lecturer at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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