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Why do religious leaders observe costly prohibitions? Examining taboos on Mentawai shamans
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 Religious leaders refrain from sex and food across human societies. Researchers argue that this avoidance influences people's perceptions of leaders’ underlying traits, but few, if any, quantitative data exist testing these claims.
Manvir Singh, Joseph Henrich
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2009 Few people in North American academia are more knowledgeable about Islam in Southeast Asia, and especially in Indonesia, than Howard Federspiel. The forte of his own research contributions lays not so much in innovative analyses as in presenting ...
Carool Kersten
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Self-denial by shamans promotes perceptions of religious credibility
, 2023 Religious leaders refrain from sex and food across human societies. Researchers argue that this self-denial promotes perceptions of credibility, invoking such associations in explanations of shamanism and prosocial religion, but few, if any, quantitative
Joseph Henrich, Manvir Singh
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Nature-human relations in Shamanism and other ancient Turkic literature
Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 Shamanism has been a rich belief system in ancient Turkic history. The shamans considered the heavenly god to be a supernatural force. The shamanistic worldview, which regulates the relationship between spirits and people and is based on practical ...
MAHMUDOV YUSUF MUHAMMEDOĞLU
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Is There a Shaman in the House? [PDF]
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 2010 This nonfictional narrative recounts a story of shared decision making between a veteran neurosurgeon and the family of a comatose patient who had suffered a hemorrhagic stroke. After reviewing the option of surgery within the context of informed consent, the family remains frozen in indecision.
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Old Testament Prophets and Shamans: Comparison of the Phenomena (Anthropological Approach)
Концепт: философия, религия, культураThe article provides a comparative analysis of the phenomena of Old Testament prophets and shamans against five key aspects: their social status, calling, intermediation, fortune-telling and magic, rituals and cosmogony, and gender.
A. V. Andreev, A. B. Gasymov
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POLITICAL SHAMANS IN A FOUCAULDIAN PERSPECTIVE: HOW SHAMANS REMAIN PRESENT IN POLITICAL CONTESTATION [PDF]
This article is not explaining how scientifically shamans are able to smooth the way for candidates in winning electoral politics, but rather this article aims to explain how the formation of discourse is built to support the rationality of political ...
Putri, Anggi Fransiska
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Women Shamans: Fluctuations in Female Spiritual Power
, 2017 The Manchu folk epic known as the Tale of the Nišan Shaman introduces all of the elements of shamanism discussed in this chapter: how one becomes a shaman; shamanic flight; ritual dress; spirit animals; and gender. Transvestism and sex change are also an
Serinity Young
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions
Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
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La formation du chamanisme amazonien au Brésil : guérisseurs, leadership et pouvoir rituel
Brésil(s)This article examines some of the transformations in the ritual and religious life of indigenous societies over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries who lived in the Eastern Amazon.
Mark Harris
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