Italian Witchcraft and Shamanism : : The Tradition of Segnature, Indigenous and Trans-cultural Shamanic Traditions in Italy / / Angela Puca.

• Superior document: Aries Book Series ; 35
• VerfasserIn: Puca, Angela,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Aries Book Series ; 35; Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (222 pages)

Shamanism is thriving as an exotic import and a hidden native tradition in Italy today. This ethnographical work uncovers two faces of Italian shamanism. The first is trans-cultural shamans who creatively adapt rituals and beliefs from indigenous cultures worldwide. Second, extensive fieldwork shows...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• 1   The Starting Point and the Behind the Scenes
•  1 The Journey to Investigating Italian Witchcraft and Shamanism
•  2 Outline of the Book
• 2   How to Define Shamanism:  Deixis and Discourse Analysis
•  1 Defining Shamanism
•  2 Can Westerners Be Shamans?
•  3 Misinterpretations of Shamanism
• 3   Contextualising Shamanism in Italy
•  1 Contextualising (Trans-cultural) Shamanism in Italy
•  2 Relation between Shamanism and the ‘New Age’ Movement
•  3 The Interaction between Paganism and Trans-cultural Shamanism
• 4   Trans-cultural Shamanism
•  1 Differences between Trans-cultural and Indigenous Shamanism
•  1.1  The Lingering Heredity of Carlos Castaneda
•  2 Core Shamanism, as Manifested in Italy
•  2.1  The Teachers of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies in Italy: Three Approaches to the Tradition
•  2.2  Lorenza Menegoni, Anthropologist and Michael Harner’s Pupil
•  2.3  Nello Ceccon, from Engineer to Shaman
•  2.4  Sara Tenaglia, Enriching Core Shamanism with Vernacular Healing Traditions
•  2.5  Drawing a Portrait of Core Shamanism in Contemporary Italy
•  3 Other Forms of Trans-cultural Shamanism
•  3.1  Castaneda-Inspired Groups
•  3.2  Psychological Shamanisms
•  3.2.1 Biotransenergetica ( bte )
•  3.2.2 Self I-Dentity Through Ho’oponopono
•  3.2.3 Shamanistic Paganism
•  3.3  Indigenous Reinterpretations (Siberian, Andean, Nordic Shamanism)
•  4 Trans-cultural Cosmology and Shamanic Journeying
•  5 Are Trans-cultural Traditions Authentic Forms of Shamanism?
• 5   The Tradition of  Segnature : The Indigenous Shamanism of Italy?
•  1 The Tradition of Segnature
•  2 The Role of Labels in Heterogenous Contemporary Traditions
•  3 The Meaning of Segnature
•  4 The Generational Gap
•  5 Types of Rituals and Initiations
•  6 The Survival of Magic. Embedding Illness into Myth
•  7 A Re-evaluation of Superstition?
•  8 Can an Italian Tradition Be Indigenous?
•  8.1  Indigenous Peoples versus Indigenous Religions
•  8.2  Conceptualising Indigenous Religions
•  9 Is the Tradition of Segnature the Indigenous Shamanism of Italy?
• 6   Relations and Contrasts with Catholicism
•  1 Case Study – Pan-Amazonian Synod and the Rejection of the Pachamama
•  2 Catholicism versus the Tradition of Segnature
• 7   Italian Shamanism and Contemporary Syncretism
•  1 The ‘Italian Shamanism’ of Michela Chiarelli
•  1.1  Michela, ‘The Last Italian Shaman of a Hereditary Tradition’
•  1.2  Italian Shamanism and the Use of Segnature
•  1.3  Italian Shamanism and the Role of Magic
•  1.4  The Conceptualisation of Syncretism
•  1.5  The Teachings of Michela
•  2 Maria Capasso on the Indigenous Healing Tradition in Sardinia
•  2.1  Types of Healers in Sardinia
•  2.2  Maria’s Definition of Shaman and Shamanism
•  2.3  Rituals and Belief System
•  2.4  Ethics in Maria’s Lineage
•  3 Michela’s and Maria’s Shamanisms in Relation to Folk Magic and Trans-cultural Shamanism
• 8   Conclusion
•  1 Review of the Book
•  2 Classifying Shamanisms Based on the Italian Case
•  3 Research Impact and Further Research
• References
• Index.