Shamanism and Northern Ecology

Published by De Gruyter 1996

Shamanism and Northern Ecology

Edited by: Juha Pentikäinen

Volume 36 in the series Religion and Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110811674

Contents

I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Introduction Juha Y. Pentikäinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Themes and concepts
A new look at the world pillar in Arctic and sub- Arctic religions Åke Hultkrantz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
C. G. Jung’s appropriation of aspects of shamanism John P. Dourley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Game and games, fortune and dualism in Siberian shamanism Roberte Ν. Hamayon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Body and soul in ancient Greenlandic religion Robert Petersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Part II: Northern Europe
Freyja and Frigg – two aspects of the Great Goddess Britt-Mari Näsström Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
The perception of the Saamis and their religion in Old Norse sources Else Mundal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Some aspects of the Christianization of Central Sweden Anne-Sofie Gräslund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
The wizards of Lapland and Saami shamanism Vladimir Shumkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Rationality and mythological foundations of calendar symbols of the ancient Komi Nikolay Konakov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Materials on Komi-Zyryan mythology: Notions of the soul Alexander Teryukov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Part III: Ugric People
Khanty shamanism today: Reindeer sacrifice and its mythological background Juha Pentikäinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Similarities and differences in Eastern Khanty shamanism Ágnes Kerezsi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Ugric mithraism Ismail Gemuev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Khanty and Mansi: the contemporary linguistic situation Elena Skribnik and Natalya Koshkaryova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Part IV: Central and East Asia
Some remarks on the myths of the Flower Contest Manabu Waida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
The concept of gods in Korean shamanism Tae-gon Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Recent East Mongolian shamanistic traditions Walther Heissig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Shamanistic elements in early Confucianism Pertti Nikkilä Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Mythology as an areal problem in the Altai- Sayan area: the sacred holes and caves Maria M. Tátar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Archaic rites in Nanaian shamanic ceremonies Tatjana Boulgakova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Part V: North Western Pacific
Ainu worldview and bear hunting strategies Takashi Irimoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Some shamanistic features of Ainu religion Kan Wada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Salmon in myth and ritual in the Northern Pacific area Taryo Obayashi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Part VI: Encounters between ethnic and world religions
A dialogue between a shaman and a missionary in West Greenland in the 18th century: the sociology of a text Inge Kleivan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
A Christian Dene Tha shaman? Aboriginal experiences among a missionized aboriginal people Jean-Guy Goulet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
The effect of the confessional factor on ethnicity Ludmila Kuzmina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Christianization = Russification? On preserving the religious and ethnic identity of the Ob-Ugrians Elena Glavatskaya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edition: Reprint 2011
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 386
Illustrations
- Tables: 9
- Other: Num. figs.
Keywords: Arktische Zone; Schamanismus; Sozialökologie; Kongress; Helsinki

eBook

Published: July 11, 2011
ISBN: 9783110811674

Hardcover

Published: February 23, 1996
ISBN: 9783110141863