January 9, 2026
José Mostacero-León, Jesús Manuel Charcape Ravelo, Anthony Jordan de la Cruz Castillo et al.
The research highlights the fundamental role of magical-religious practices in the preservation, use, and transmission of ethnobotanical knowledge in Peru. These practices, deeply rooted in the Andean-Amazonian worldview, manifest themselves through the symbolic and therapeutic use of sacred plants, contributing to the continuity of the cultural and spiritual identities of indigenous...
Architecture Image Studies
January 6, 2026
Elizabeth Akpanke Odey, Peter Akpo Adams, Osmond Agbor Otora et al.
Divination is a pivotal aspect of African Traditional Religion (ATR). In African indigenous cosmologies and spiritual systems, divination is the means through which the Divine to speak with humans, offering insight, guidance, and solutions to community and individual. This communicative role is what is referred to as prophetic role of divination. Divination also performs diagnostic and...
Journal of Young Researcher
2026
Asmar Shakir Aliyeva
The article examines the vestiges of ancient shamanic worldviews within the structural and semantic framework of Azerbaijani magic tales, focusing specifically on the archetype of transformation and shape-shifting.The shaman and the dervish figure in magic tales are genealogically and functionally sacred mediators originating from the same mythic root, representing two distinct historical...
Quotidiana
December 17, 2025
Piera Talin
This article examines how ayahuasca religions in Italy have reconfigured their ritual practices following the 2022 legal ban on ayahuasca, including replacing the brew with water and creating new forms of religious travel. The Amazonian psychoactive brew ayahuasca, traditionally used in Indigenous rituals and healing, is at the centre of transnational religions that have spread globally....
The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies
December 16, 2025
Dendup Chophel, Barbara Gerke, Sangay Thinley
This report from the field in the form of a photo essay explores the shifting religious landscape of Ketokha, a village in the Chhukha district of southwestern Bhutan. Historically, Buddhist and shamanic traditions coexisted in Ketokha, negotiating varied positions of power, influence and healing. The nejom (female medium) and pawo (male medium) played pivotal roles in ritually protecting the...
Jete – Jоurnal of Philosophy Religious аnd Cultural Studies
December 10, 2025
Medine Arslan, ARI Yılmaz
This study aims to explore the cultural continuity of Shamanistic beliefs and practices within Turkish society living in Anatolia. The primary objective of the research is to examine how the Turks—who have interacted with various religions and cultures throughout history—have preserved and transmitted elements of their ancient Shamanistic traditions to the present day. A qualitative research...
Communications in Humanities Research
November 11, 2025
Rui Lao
Traditional religions have often faced decline when meeting outside forces. Their loss, however, happens in different ways. For the Ewenki people, shamanism weakened mainly because of political control and modernization. Government policies forced them to settle down and turned their sacred rituals into cultural performances. For the Sami, the decline was not caused by modernization but by...
Implicit Religion
October 30, 2025
André Van der Braak
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Latour constructs a plurality of ontologies by distinguishing various modes of existence with their own type of existent. One of these modes of existence is religion, which involves invisible “beings of religion.” Latour criticizes both psychological and (onto)theological interpretations of such beings. He distinguishes between psychogenic beings that constitute the self, and beings of religion...
Religions
October 21, 2025
J.S. Kim, Yuanfei Li, Fenggang Yang
This study examined the spatial distribution of shamanic practice in contemporary South Korea, focusing on its territorial relationship with institutional religions. Contrary to portrayals of shamanism as a rural remnant or as absorbed by Pentecostal Christianity, population-adjust maps and spatial models reveal substantial concentrations in urban and peri-urban districts. Drawing on a geocoded...
Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology
October 16, 2025
Dominika Klimas
This article presents findings of the study on the role and characteristics of contemporary psychedelic facilitation in shamanic and ceremonial settings, with facilitators who work alongside Indigenous shamans in their country of origin. While interest in psychedelics has increased in recent years, there is a paucity of studies that have focused on the process of facilitation within these...