Shamanism and Northern Ecology / / ed. by Juha Pentikäinen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Boulgakova, Tatjana,; Dourley, John P.,; Gemuev, Ismail,; Glavatskaya, Elena,; Goulet, Jean-Guy,; Gräslund, Anne-Sofie,; Hamayon, Roberte Ν.,; Heissig, Walther,; Hultkrantz, Åke,; Irimoto, Takashi,; Kerezsi, Ágnes,; Kim, Tae-gon,; Kleivan, Inge,; Konakov, Nikolay,; Koshkaryova, Natalya,; Kuzmina, Ludmila,; Mundal, Else,; Nikkilä, Pertti,; Näsström, Britt-Mari,; Obayashi, Taryo,; Pentikäinen, Juha Y.,; Pentikäinen, Juha,; Petersen, Robert,; Shumkin, Vladimir,; Skribnik, Elena,; Teryukov, Alexander,; Tátar, Maria M.,; Wada, Kan,; Waida, Manabu,
• HerausgeberIn: Pentikäinen, Juha,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Society , 36
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (386 p.) :; Num. figs.
• Other title: I-IV --; Foreword --; Introduction --; Part I: Themes and concepts --; A new look at the world pillar in Arctic and sub- Arctic religions --; C. G. Jung’s appropriation of aspects of shamanism --; Game and games, fortune and dualism in Siberian shamanism --; Body and soul in ancient Greenlandic religion --; Part II: Northern Europe --; Freyja and Frigg – two aspects of the Great Goddess --; The perception of the Saamis and their religion in Old Norse sources --; Some aspects of the Christianization of Central Sweden --; The wizards of Lapland and Saami shamanism --; Rationality and mythological foundations of calendar symbols of the ancient Komi --; Materials on Komi-Zyryan mythology: Notions of the soul --; Part III: Ugric People --; Khanty shamanism today: Reindeer sacrifice and its mythological background --; Similarities and differences in Eastern Khanty shamanism --; Ugric mithraism --; Khanty and Mansi: the contemporary linguistic situation --; Part IV: Central and East Asia --; Some remarks on the myths of the Flower Contest --; The concept of gods in Korean shamanism --; Recent East Mongolian shamanistic traditions --; Shamanistic elements in early Confucianism --; Mythology as an areal problem in the Altai- Sayan area: the sacred holes and caves --; Archaic rites in Nanaian shamanic ceremonies --; Part V: North Western Pacific --; Ainu worldview and bear hunting strategies --; Some shamanistic features of Ainu religion --; Salmon in myth and ritual in the Northern Pacific area --; Part VI: Encounters between ethnic and world religions --; A dialogue between a shaman and a missionary in West Greenland in the 18th century: the sociology of a text --; A Christian Dene Tha shaman? Aboriginal experiences among a missionized aboriginal people --; The effect of the confessional factor on ethnicity --; Christianization = Russification? On preserving the religious and ethnic identity of the Ob-Ugrians
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110811674; 9783110638110; 9783110305630; 9783110305654
• ISSN: 1437-5370
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110811674
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Juha Pentikäinen.