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Shamanism and Northern Ecology / ed. by Juha Pentikäinen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and Society ; 36Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2011]Copyright date: ©1996Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (386 p.) : Num. figsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110141863
  • 9783110811674
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.6/9162 22
LOC classification:
  • GN475.8 .S45 1996
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
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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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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