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[Vol 1] Agents and Audiences

Edited by: Agrhananda Bharati

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The Realm of the Extra-Human

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1976

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I-XII Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
Introduction AGEHANANDA BHARATI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
SECTION ONE
Neo-Hindu Acculturation: An Alternative to "Instant Chemical Religion" ROBERT J. FORNARO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
Lévi-Strauss in Fairyland LORNA McDOUGALL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
Gods, Kings, and the Caste System in India L. K. MAHAPATRA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
Shamanism as a Profession R. O. MANNING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
Religion and Human Play EDWARD NORBECK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	95
The Akan Stool Polity: A Political Organization ALFRED KOFI QUARCOO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Religious Change in a Northern Nigerian Emirate FRANK A. SALAMONE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
SECTION TWO
Deified Men and Humanized Gods: Some Folk Bases of Hindu Theology A. AIYAPPAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
Shamanism in Central Asia V. BASILOV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
Shaman and Priest in Yucatán Pentecostalism FELICITAS D. GOODMAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
Sense Stimulation and Ritual Response: Classifying the Religious Symbolism of the Persian and Yemenite Jews LAURENCE D. LOEB Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
Characteristics of Sisala Diviners EUGENE L. MENDONSA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
The Goddess Cult in the Hebrew-Jewish Religion RAPHAEL PATAI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
Tibetan Oracles PETER PRINCE OF GREECE AND DENMARK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Breaking Ties with Deceased Spouse PAUL C. ROSENBLATT, R. PATRICIA WALSH and DOUGLAS A. JACKSON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
The Spirit "Rides" or the Spirit "Comes": Possession in a North Indian Village SUSAN S. WADLEY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
The Shamanistic Element in Taiwanese Folk Religion MITSUO SUZUKI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
The Study of Shamanism among the Peoples of Siberia and the North I. S. VDOVIN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
SECTION THREE
Altered States of Consciousness in Northern Iroquoian Ritual BARBARA W. LEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Shamanism, Trance, Hallucinogens, and Psychical Events: Concepts, Methods, and Techniques for Fieldwork among Primitives JOSEPH K. LONG Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
The Culture-Historical Origin of Shamanism HORST NACHTIGALL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	315
The Role of Women in the Male Cults of the Soromaja in New Guinea GOTTFRIED OOSTERWAL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
Certain Aspects of the Study of Siberian Shamanism L. P. POTAPOV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
Learning of Psychodynamics, History, and Diagnosis Management Therapy by a Kali Cult Indigenous Healer in Guiana PHILIP SINGER, ENRIQUE ARANETA and JAMSIE NAIDOO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	345
A Peruvian Curandero's Séance: Power and Balance DOUGLAS SHARON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
SECTION FOUR
Esoteric Rituals in Japanese Traditional Secret Societies: A Study of the Death and Rebirth Motif TSUNEO AYABE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	385
Ritual, Myth, and the Murdered President DOROTHY WILLNER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	401
SECTION FIVE
Pandharpur Priesthood: Its Changing Role, Functions, and Future G. V. DINGRE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	423
An Anthropomorphic Shamanic Musical Instrument from the Eighth to Twelfth Centuries A.D. A. KRALOVÁNSZKY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	439
Rousalia: The Ritual Worship of the Dead F. K. LITSAS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447
Personifications of Capes and Rocks in the Hellenic Seas DEMETRIOS LOUKATOS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	467
Historical Reality and Russian Supernatural Beings FELIX J. OINAS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	475
Some Findings Concerning the Nomenclature and Functions of Certain Lacandon Mayan Deities JAROSLAW THEODORE PETRYSHYN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	485
The Moon-Mythical Character of the God Yü-huang JOHN TU ER-WEI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	501
Was Espingo (Ispincu) of Psychotropic and Intoxicating Importance for the Shamans in Peru? S. HENRY WASSÉN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	511
Epilogue SAMARENDRA SARAF Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	521
Biographical Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	531
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	543
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	551

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January 1, 1976

Hardcover ISBN:

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12

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556

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20 plates. Num. tabs.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110805840

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