The article is devoted to an important topic – the phenomenon of female prophecy in the Old Testament. This problem is considered within the framework of the anthropological model “Old Testament prophets are shamans”. The study discusses the possible connection between the ministry of Old Testament prophetesses and shamanic practices of different cultures. The purpose of this article is to...
This article is devoted to refuting the concept of Yong-Chi Rhie, who proposes to read the narrative of the calling of the prophet Ezekiel as a shamanic illness (in Korean shamanism). Since the author investigates the story in question as such, without textual criticism, the refutation of the researcher's concept is constructed from within the biblical corpus. To analyze the problem, all key...
The purpose of this article is to review various opinions of Soviet scientists about mental health of shamans. The task of this paper is to analyse a wide range of Soviet sources on shamanism, identify their attitude to “shamanic madness” and possible reasons for its formation, and compare positions of different authors on the subject. The following methods were used: comparative, causal...