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.

Table of Contents

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