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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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Reassessing Shamanism and Animism in the Art and Archaeology of Ancient Mesoamerica
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
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Art and Shamanism: From Cave Painting to the White Cube
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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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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The Evolved Psychology of Psychedelic Set and Setting: Inferences Regarding the Roles of Shamanism and Entheogenic Ecopsychology [PDF]
Michael James Winkelman
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On the problem of studying shamanism in the Yakut and Korean culture [PDF]
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.
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Emancipative Islamic theology and Hifz Al-Din: Muslim youth resistance against shamanism
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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The Shamanism in Altai and Tuva from past to present: Universal and Local Aspects
Shamanism is a system composed of various elements of culture and belief, created by people to understand life and come to grips with what is happening around them. It has an elaborate structure in terms of existing in well-rounded communities.
Sukru Burbar
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The Qur’anic mantras recited by Shamanic Santri in Java, Indonesia
To overcome various problems, the practice of shamanism has gained popularity in Javanese society. The belief of the society in this practice is increasing, mainly because of the involvement of the kyai (an honorific title of the Muslim clergy), who ...
Hasyim Muhammad +3 more
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The change in the researcher’s position in the study of shamanism
Since the 1960s, shamanism has become one of the landmarks for a new way of life and a more respectful relationship of humans with nature in the Western world.
Jaana Kouri, Elina Hytönen-Ng
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