Shamanism and Northern Ecology

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Shamanism and Northern Ecology

Edited by: Juha Pentikäinen

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1996

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Volume 36 | Religion and Society

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Religion, Bible and Theology Religious Studies Indigenous Religions and Native Traditions
Religion, Bible and Theology Religious Studies Anthropology of Religion

I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Introduction Juha Y. Pentikäinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Themes and concepts
A new look at the world pillar in Arctic and sub- Arctic religions Åke Hultkrantz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
C. G. Jung’s appropriation of aspects of shamanism John P. Dourley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
Game and games, fortune and dualism in Siberian shamanism Roberte Ν. Hamayon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
Body and soul in ancient Greenlandic religion Robert Petersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
Part II: Northern Europe
Freyja and Frigg – two aspects of the Great Goddess Britt-Mari Näsström Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
The perception of the Saamis and their religion in Old Norse sources Else Mundal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
Some aspects of the Christianization of Central Sweden Anne-Sofie Gräslund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
The wizards of Lapland and Saami shamanism Vladimir Shumkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
Rationality and mythological foundations of calendar symbols of the ancient Komi Nikolay Konakov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
Materials on Komi-Zyryan mythology: Notions of the soul Alexander Teryukov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Part III: Ugric People
Khanty shamanism today: Reindeer sacrifice and its mythological background Juha Pentikäinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Similarities and differences in Eastern Khanty shamanism Ágnes Kerezsi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
Ugric mithraism Ismail Gemuev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
Khanty and Mansi: the contemporary linguistic situation Elena Skribnik and Natalya Koshkaryova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
Part IV: Central and East Asia
Some remarks on the myths of the Flower Contest Manabu Waida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
The concept of gods in Korean shamanism Tae-gon Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Recent East Mongolian shamanistic traditions Walther Heissig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
Shamanistic elements in early Confucianism Pertti Nikkilä Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
Mythology as an areal problem in the Altai- Sayan area: the sacred holes and caves Maria M. Tátar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
Archaic rites in Nanaian shamanic ceremonies Tatjana Boulgakova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	279
Part V: North Western Pacific
Ainu worldview and bear hunting strategies Takashi Irimoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
Some shamanistic features of Ainu religion Kan Wada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
Salmon in myth and ritual in the Northern Pacific area Taryo Obayashi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
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 Inge Kleivan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
A Christian Dene Tha shaman? Aboriginal experiences among a missionized aboriginal people Jean-Guy Goulet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
The effect of the confessional factor on ethnicity Ludmila Kuzmina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	365
Christianization = Russification? On preserving the religious and ethnic identity of the Ob-Ugrians Elena Glavatskaya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373

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eBook published on:

July 11, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110811674

Hardcover published on:

February 23, 1996

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110141863

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Reprint 2011

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

9

Main content:

386

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9

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110811674

eBook ISBN: 9783110811674

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110141863

Keywords for this book

Arktische Zone; Schamanismus; Sozialökologie; Kongress; Helsinki

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