Time and Mind
July 3, 2018
Charles D. Laughlin
7 citations
While discussions of meditation by psychologists tend to focus upon various forms of East Asian yogic practice, other systems of meditation occur across cultures. Meditation is defined in neuropsychological terms that allow the phenomenon to be examined in ethnographic situations. Anthropologists have found that meditation on culturally salient symbols is widespread among the world’s spiritual...
Oxford Scholarship Online
July 3, 2018
Gregory Shushan
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are indisputably part of human experience, known from accounts from around the world and throughout history. This book examines the role culture plays in how people experience and interpret NDEs, and reveals how afterlife beliefs often originate in such extraordinary experiences. It also explores the relationship between shamanism and NDEs. The book focuses on...
Ethnohistory
July 1, 2018
Edward Anthony Polanco
9 citations
Abstract Since the sixteenth century, Central Mexican tiçiyotl (Nahua healing knowledge) has been portrayed as a male-dominated system akin to Western medicine. This has made Nahua women invisible in broader discussions of tiçiyotl. Though the historiography acknowledges that women were titiçih (healing ritual specialists), the scholarship has primarily focused on their role in midwifery. This...
Mundo Amazónico
July 1, 2018
Jimmy Weiskopf
2 citations
This is the second of a three-part account of a visit to Iquitos at the time of the New Millennium by the narrator, who lives in Colombia and has been drinking yajé (ayahuasca) with its indigenous shamans. For a book he is writing about the subject, decides to investigate the rituals in Peru. It is in the form of a travelogue divided into vignettes: his voyage upriver from Leticia to Iquitos,...
Visualidades
June 18, 2018
Vandimar Marques Damas
2 citations
Este texto é resultado de uma etnografia realizada sobre os artefatos do povo indígena Tapirapé. Para esse povo, os artefatos e a pintura corporal são saberes xamânicos o xamã é o responsável por trazer esses saberes dos espíritos para eles. Além de ornamentar e embelezar o corpo, os artefatos podem proteger dos espíritos, provocar doenças e a morte. Alguns artefatos são considerados encantados...
Science and education new time
June 15, 2018
اسماعیل رادپور, Mustafa Yılmaz
In this article, the first religious understandings of the Kyrgyz people will be discussed. One of the basic beliefs of the old Kyrgyz people is shamanism, and the reasons for the emergence of this belief will be discussed
Fermentario
June 6, 2018
Juan Scuro
3 citations
Se problematiza la idea de laicidad a partir de los usos de enteógenos o plantas sagradas, como la ayahuasca. Se analiza el caso de una retención de ayahuasca (brebaje psicoactivo de origen amazónico) ocurrida en 2009 en la Aduana del Chuy, proveniente de Brasil, dirigida a una iglesia del Santo Daime en Uruguay, pero que no alcanzó aun su destino luego de la intervención de la justicia y el...
Pressto
June 1, 2018
Maria Sibińska
The article elucidates the presence of the Sami undercurrent in Norwegian literature. Proceeding from Elisabeth Oxfeldt’s theoretical work on the post-national and on the Bhabhanian concept third space, two novels are being discussed: Ailo Gaup’s Trommereisen (1988) and Helene Uri’s Rydde ut (2013). Gaup’s works constitute the first samic voice in Norwegian literature, which explicitly...
Theology of Mission
May 31, 2018
Sung Gun Kim
Considering the contrasting pattern of the acceptance and development of Christianity in Korea and Japan, the present study aims to compare Protestant Christianity and people’s religiosity in these two neighboring countries, and shed some light on the current debate on religiosity in East Asia. In Korea, where the relationship between conservative Protestantism (Presbyterian or Pentecostal) and...
May 25, 2018
Magda Bałajewicz
Shaman is an individual, gifted with plenty of unusual skills the medium between two worlds, human and the external one. Being a leader and healer, shaman is master for the younger entrants, leading them through the difficult initiation process and preparing them to independent work on their potential in the future. With time shamanism became a sort of the cultural model associated with...