Kajian ini menganalisis konsep shamanism dari perspektif Hadith dan mengkaji fenomena perbomohan kontemporari di Kelantan. Permasalahan utama yang diteliti adalah kewujudan amalan perbomohan yang melibatkan ritual dan jampi yang tidak jelas sumbernya daripada al-Quran dan Hadith, sering kali berpotensi mengandungi unsur syirik. Ini menimbulkan cabaran besar dalam membezakan antara pengubatan...
Background and Aim: Manchu shamanic music, a vital component of Northeast China’s intangible cultural heritage since its 2010 designation, faces existential threats from declining rituals, urbanization, and global cultural influences. Rooted in Tungusic traditions, it integrates spiritual communication through pentatonic scales and ritual practices, yet risks erosion due to aging practitioners...
Until Wilson Harris, the Guyanese/British fiction writer and theorist, made his ubiquitous mark within the literary tradition of the Anglophone Caribbean in 1960 with the publication of his first major novel, Palace of the Peacock, few Anglophone Caribbean writers and theorists in the first half of the twentieth century focused on non-normative concepts of gender and sexuality in their fiction....
This paper examines Ted Hughes’ shamanic poetics through the lens of artificial intelligence, arguing that his animal totems (Crow, Pike, The Jaguar) anticipate contemporary tensions between organic consciousness and machine intelligence. By analyzing Hughes’ ritualistic verse structures alongside AI text generators’ ‘hallucinations,’ the study reveals how both systems employ fractured...
This study aimed to investigate the practical effects of symbolic imagery on shamanic religious rituals, emotional modulation, belief deepening, and alterations in the state of consciousness. Thirty participants were recruited and randomly assigned to either a control group or an experimental group for comparative investigation. The results indicated that participants in the experimental group...
The article presents a semiotic analysis of shamanic attributes and clothing of the Evens, documented during a 2024 expedition to the Srednekolymsky District of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The study focuses on a children’s shamanic set (khamasak teti kungangi) and a ritual headdress (khamasak avun) from the collection of the Berezovsky Evens. The author examines the symbolic language and...
This study investigates how human will is articulated, negotiated, and reimagined within the discourses about Shamanism of Northeast China, with a particular focus on user-generated content from the Douyin platform (Chinese TikTok). Drawing on the data collected from comments between 2020 and 2024, this research employs a triangulated methodology integrating Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)...
May 31, 2025The Society Of Korean Literature, Eunwoo Lee
In recent years, Korean TV entertainment programs have increasingly incorporated shamanism as a central theme, creating new forms of shamanistic expression within popular culture. This study analyzes how shamanic content is represented in three representative programs—Buchaedosah, Knee-Drop Guru, and Ask the Bodhisattvas—and examines their narrative structures and cultural implications. Despite...
Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a critical review of textual sources, this article offers a systematic typological and symbolic analysis of the ritual functions, attire, and implements of the four categories of shamans in Khorchin, Inner Mongolia-khondon, Shamanic, laichin, and gürdem. The study demonstrates that Khorchin shamanic material culture fuses nomadic traditions, Buddhist...
This study is dedicated to a comparative analysis of the differences between the ritual implements and attire used in Mongolian shamanism and those found in Tibetan Bon religious temples. By conducting an in-depth investigation into the ceremonial tools and clothing of these two cultural traditions, the research aims to uncover the symbolic meanings and cultural values embedded in them. Drawing...