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Religions July 23, 2018 Trude Fonneland
To choose a terminology for an investigation of shamanism in contemporary Norway is not entirely without problems. Many shamans are adamant in rejecting the term religion in connection with their practices and choose broader rubrics when describing what they believe in. When shamanism was approved as an official religion by the Norwegian government in 2012, the tensions ran high, and many...
Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion July 4, 2018 Olle Sundström
In this essay the Marxist-Leninist understanding of the concept ‘religion’ is analysed in relation to how it was applied to the so-called shamanism of the indigenous peoples of the Soviet North. The point of departure is the correspondence between the head of the Council for the Affairs of Religious Cults in the Soviet Far East and his superior in Moscow. Further, the legal consequences of the...
Dance, Movement & Spiritualities July 1, 2018 Mark James Hamilton
Abstract This article explores a performance called Salvation: Shamanic Striptease. It considers how my co-creation of this spiritual–erotic work with white South African performer Daniel P. Cunningham1 has elaborated ‘shamanic striptease’ – an emergent practice through which he seeks to discover movement and vocalization (words and song) that yield deep significance for him (as performer) and...
Wooden Documents and Inscriptions Studies June 30, 2018 Hu-a Yang
중국 문명이 생겨난 과정과 발달정도를 논급할 때, 城市는 하나의 중요한 지표가 된다. 중국 고대 城市에 관한 연구 성과는 이미 많이 축적되어 있다. 이 논문은 주로 城市의 建造와 城市의 生活에서의 巫祝儀式에 대해 논의하고 있는데, 이는 기존의 연구자들이 그다지 주목하지 않았던 주제이다. 巫祝활동과 儒家의례는 때로 구분하기가 어렵지만, 여기서는 巫術 활동을 위주로 논의하고 후자도 겸하여 논하는 방식으로 진행한다.BR 『吳越春秋』에는 周나라의 先祖인 古公亶父가 邠(豳)에서 歧山으로 옮겨 기거할 때의 “居三月成城郭, 一年成邑, 二年成都, 而民五倍其初”라는 기록이 있다. 이는 처음 城郭을 건설하고 다시 邑과 都로 확장할 때, 城市의 발전 과정과 규모를 반영한다. 따라서 본문에서는 “都邑”의 개념을 사용하여,...
The Journal of East-West Comparative Literature June 30, 2018 Jun-soo Kang
The purpose of this paper is to compare the elements of Shamanism in Macbeth by William Shakespeare with the similarities of nomadic cultures in Northeast Asia. Basically, Shakespeare focuses on the evil that happened by Macbeth’s murder and it was represented as a matter of constant human desire and corruption. However, this study focuses on the problem of cultural exchange and communication...
Pomegranate The International Journal of Pagan Studies June 22, 2018 Robert J. Wallis
Trude Fonneland, Contemporary Shamanisms in Norway: Religion, Entrepreneurship, and Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 248pp., $99 (hardcover), $97.99 (ebook).
Sibirskie istoricheskie issledovaniya June 1, 2018 Валентина Ивановна Харитонова
Подготовлено в рамках реализации проекта РФФИ № 18-09-00744 «Cовременные сакральные практики освоения социальных ландшафтов на южном Алтае».* Written in the frame of the RFBR project Nr. 18-09-00744 "Contemporary practices of sacral assignments of social landscapes in the Southern Altai".
Review of Korean Studies June 1, 2018 Tommy Tran
What are the implications of a Starbucks bag tied on a tree as an offering to village gods or a Buddhist chant intoned in place of a shamanic invocation? This article re-considers the cultural meanings of practical material changes in Jeju shamanism in relation to its rapid urbanization since the early 2000s. Though often romanticized as an idyllic rural paradise or a bastion of shamanic...
Acta Ethnographica Hungarica June 1, 2018 Éva Pócs 5 citations
One of the purposes of this study is to outline the research problem related to the wizard called táltos and a hypothesized shamanism in the pagan, pre-Christian religion of the Hungarians. Another purpose is to present the results of new research on this issue. The first part of the study is the analysis of the activities of a weather wizard called táltos from the 16th to the 21st century, as...
Acta Ethnographica Hungarica June 1, 2018 Anna Judit Tóth
The assessment of the talent of the Delphic Pythia was ambiguous among Greeks. On the one hand, they emphasized the role of Apollo in the process, saying that becoming a Pythia requires no special ability or education. On the other hand, they admitted that the Pythia infl uences the poetic quality of the oracle. Despite the modern popular view, the Delphic oracles did not require a secondary...