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Transcending time and place in the context of Covid-19
Ciencias Sociales y Religión, 2021 During 2020, because of Covid-related restrictions, opportunities to travel to sacred heritage sites dramatically decreased and Pagans’ and shamans’ gatherings and rituals necessarily moved online.
Kathryn Rountree
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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 427-438, June 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
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Shamans and “Dark Agencies”: War, Magical Parasitism, and Re-Enchanted Spirits in Siberia
ReligionsAlleged practices of magical assault and vampirism are a recurrent feature of popular explanations of misfortune in Tuva, South Siberia. Based on a field study of healing practices in an “Association of Shamans”, this article analyses rituals of ...
Konstantinos Zorbas
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ReligionsMedio Period (AD 1200 to 1450) Casas Grandes shamans used tobacco and possibly other entheogens to initiate trance states that allowed their spirits to travel across the cosmos. These trance experiences involved a sense of vertigo and soul flight that is
Christine S. VanPool
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Of Listening and Speaking: Four Movements Towards an Anti‐Colonial and Anti‐Capitalist Register
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 329-333, June 2026.
Ana Deumert
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Nanai Fairytales about the Cruel Bride
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2011 Fairytale plots are studied in the present article in the context of the shamanic practise of the Nanai people; they are mainly dealt with from an emic perspective.
Tatiana Bulgakova
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Yanomami humanitarian tragedy: an urgent colonial heritage issue. [PDF]
Braz J Psychiatry, 2023 Lima MG, Fidalgo TM.
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Contest in Nanai Shamanic Tales
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2015 The tale motif of the shamanic tale competition is examined with due regard for the interpretation given by the Nanai storyteller-shamans from the standpoint of their personal spiritual experience.
Tatiana Bulgakova
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Exploring cultural factors contributing maternal mortality among pregnant women: an ethnographic study in the Banjarnegara community, Central Java, Indonesia. [PDF]
Front Glob Womens HealthSulistyorini D +4 more
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