Shamanism and Northern Ecology /

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

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (386 p.) :; Num. figs.
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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

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