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Deconstruction of the Trance Model: Historical, Ethnographic, and Contextual Studies of Manchu Shamanism

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Social trends and historical contexts have popularized Eliade’s trance model in shamanism studies and have contributed to a famous academic debate. A case study on Manchu shamanism conducted in this article shows that a Manchu shaman functions primarily ...
Feng Qu
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The Tuvan Shamanism and Its Features

open access: yesMongolian Diaspora. Journal of Mongolian History and Culture, 2023
We aim to study the tuvan shamansm and to reveal its specific features of shamanism of the Tuvan ethnic group in Mongolia and collected materials for our study during field work by interviewing, taking pictures, video and audio records.
Burged Munkhtsetseg
exaly   +2 more sources

The Double Identities of the Shaman and the Dualistic Attitudes of the State: An Exploration of Contemporary Organizational Shamanism in Northeast China

open access: yesReligions
This paper presents a case study of the first shamanic organization in China and argues that organizational shamanism in Northeast China is characterized by the double identities of the shaman and the dualistic attitudes of the national authorities.
Feng Qu
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Shamanism in Contemporary Norway: Concepts in Conflict

open access: yesReligions, 2018
To choose a terminology for an investigation of shamanism in contemporary Norway is not entirely without problems. Many shamans are adamant in rejecting the term religion in connection with their practices and choose broader rubrics when describing what ...
Trude Fonneland
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Art and Shamanism: From Cave Painting to the White Cube

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Art and shamanism are often represented as timeless, universal features of human experience, with an apparently immutable relationship. Shamanism is frequently held to represent the origin of religion and shamans are characterized as the first artists ...
Robert J Wallis
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Reassessing Shamanism and Animism in the Art and Archaeology of Ancient Mesoamerica

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Shamanism and animism have proven to be useful cross-cultural analytical tools for anthropology, particularly in religious studies. However, both concepts root in reductionist, social evolutionary theory and have been criticized for their vague and ...
Eleanor Harrison-Buck, David A Freidel
exaly   +3 more sources

Shamanism and Christianity: Models of Religious Encounters in East Asia

open access: yesReligions
When exploring interactions between Christianity and other religions in East Asia, the place given to the shamanic tradition remains ambiguous and marginal.
Yang Li
exaly   +3 more sources

On the problem of studying shamanism in the Yakut and Korean culture [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2022
The article is devoted to one of the discussed problems in religious studies, related to the question of whether shamanism is considered a world religion. This problem is closely related to the issues of ethnogenesis of both the Yakut and Korean peoples,
Zhelobtsov Fedot F.
doaj   +1 more source

Emancipative Islamic theology and Hifz Al-Din: Muslim youth resistance against shamanism

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
The resistance of Muslims to shamanism began when lies of the shamans were exposed on social media. Many shamans practise fraud under the guise of religion.
Hasnah Nasution   +5 more
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