Shamanism In The Interdisciplinary Context

Author : Art Leete,R. Paul Firnhaber
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781581124033

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Shamanism in the Interdisciplinary Context by Art Leete,R. Paul Firnhaber Pdf

The understanding of shamanism in its variety of forms and manifestations has become vital in our understanding of the origins and development of ideological systems of the human family. Though not a religion, shamanism is the first formalization of the human quest for meaning, understanding and participation in the mysteries of the cosmic drama. It is a global phenomenon; cultural specific practices and beliefs reflecting and embodying universal "truths." This book is a collection of the papers presented at the 6th Conference of the International Society for Shamanistic Research held at the Viljandi Kultuurikolledz, Viljandi, Estonia in August of 2001. It represents the contemporary work of international scholarship in its attempt to understand the complexities of shamanism, both ancient and surviving. Increasingly the study of shamanism is interdisciplinary. These papers and articles offer, as well, an example of the mix of disciplines presently coming to bear on the study of shamanism.

Author : Alex S. Kohav
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498599382

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Mysticism and Experience by Alex S. Kohav Pdf

Mysticism and Experience: Twenty-First-Century Approaches embarks on an investigation of the concept of mysticism from the standpoint of academic fields, including philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, mysticism studies, literary studies, art criticism, cognitive poetics, cognitive science, psychology, medical research, and even mathematics. Scholars across disciplines observe that, although it has experienced both cyclical approval and disapproval, mysticism seems to be implicated as a key foundation of religion, alon with the highest forms of social, cultural, intellectual, and artistic creations. This book is divided into four sections: The Exposure, The Symbolic, The Cognitive, and The Scientific, covering all fundamental aspects of the phenomenon known as mysticism. Contributors, taking advantage of recent advances in disciplinary approaches to understanding mystical phenomena, address questions of whether progress can be made to systemically enrich, expand, and advance our understanding of mysticism.

Author : Adam J. Rock
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780786472208

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The Survival Hypothesis by Adam J. Rock Pdf

Contemporary parapsychology tends to be preoccupied with ESP (telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition) and psychokinesis. In contrast, this cutting-edge anthology assembles an international team of experts from the fields of psychology, parapsychology, philosophy, anthropology and neuroscience to examine critically what is referred to as the survival hypothesis: the tentative statement or prediction that some aspect of our personhood (e.g., consciousness) persists subsequent to the death of the physical body. The appraisal of the survival hypothesis will be restricted to the phenomenon of mediumship; that is, humans who ostensibly communicate with the deceased. The book has been divided into four main sections: Explanation and Belief; Culture, Psychopathology and Psychotherapy; Empirical Approaches; The Present and Future. The issue of postmortem survival is supremely relevant to us all because the human encounter with death is, of course, a certainty.

Author : Jojo M. Fung
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319510224

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A Shamanic Pneumatology in a Mystical Age of Sacred Sustainability by Jojo M. Fung Pdf

This book represents a germinal effort that urges all religious and world leaders to savor the mystical spirituality, especially the cosmology and spirituality of sacred sustainability of the indigenous peoples. The power of indigenous spirit world is harnessed for the common good of the indigenous communities and the regenerative power of mother earth. This everyday mysticism of the world as spirited and sacred serves to re-enchant a world disillusioned by the unsustainability of destructive economic systems that have spawned the current ecological crises. Author Jojo Fung offers insight from his lived-experience and this book represents his effort to correlate the indigenous spirit world with Catholic Pneumatology and articulate the activity of God’s Spirit as the Spirit of Sacred Sustainability.

Author : Tatiana Bulgakova
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783942883146

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Nanai Shamanic Culture in Indigenous Discourse by Tatiana Bulgakova Pdf

This book on Nanai shamanic culture is based on first-hand information provided by shamans and recorded in the years between 1980 and 2012, a time of rapid socio-cultural change in Russia. It sheds light on the lively indigenous discourse in which social factors such as the splitting of society into different paternal lineages relates to spiritual troubles that Nanai people experience as collective ‘shamanic disease.’ But inter-clan confrontations are not only mediated in shamanic rituals, as these must not be separated from folk narratives, dances and other forms of art. Furthermore, the book provides profound insights into the plurality of contradictory discourses on indigenous knowledge as well as those delivered in non-indigenous contexts. The latter arose or became more intense in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, and often led to experiments in new shamanic practices.

Author : Alexandra Coțofană
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805391760

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The Familial Occult by Alexandra Coțofană Pdf

The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. Those with backgrounds in the familial occult often experience a series of conflicting relationships and different ways of interacting with binaries such as the subjective and objective, a powerful conceptual couple still governing academic thinking. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprentice in an occult practice, little yet has been published in the academic literature about growing up with the occult.

Author : Joonseong Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783031110276

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The Assemblage of Korean Shamanism by Joonseong Lee Pdf

The most unique aspect of Korean shamanism is its mysterious duality that continually reiterates the processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. This book approaches that puzzle of mysterious duality using an interdisciplinary lens. Korean shamanism has been under continuous oppression and marginalization for a long time, and that circumstance has never dissipated. Shaman culture can be found in every corner of people’s lives in contemporary Korea, but few acknowledge their indigenous beliefs with pride. This mysterious duality has deepened as the mediatization process of Korean shamanism has developed. Korean shamanism was revived as the dynamic of shamanic inheritance in the process, but these dynamics have also become the object of mockery. For this reason, any true understanding of Korean shamanism rests in how to unravel the unique puzzles of this mysterious duality. In this book, the duality is mapped out by playing with the puzzles surrounding the contextualization of Korean shamanism and mediatization.

Author : Anna Fedele,Kim Knibbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135114527

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Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality by Anna Fedele,Kim Knibbe Pdf

This book explores the entanglements of gender and power in spiritual practices and analyzes strategies used by spiritual practitioners to attain what to social scientists might seem an impossible goal: creating spiritual communities without creating gendered hierarchies. What strategies do people within these networks use to attain gender equality and gendered empowerment? How do they try to protect and develop individual freedom? How do gender and power nevertheless play a role? The chapters in this book together and separately demonstrate that, in order to understand contemporary spirituality, the analytical lenses of gender and power are essential. Furthermore, they show that it is not possible to make a clear distinction between established religions and contemporary spirituality: the two sometimes overlap, and at other times spirituality distances itself from religion while reproducing some of its underlying interpretative frameworks. This book does not take the discourses of spiritual practitioners for granted, yet recognizes the reflexivity of spiritual practitioners and the reciprocal relationship between spirituality and disciplines such as anthropology. The ethnographic descriptions of lived spirituality included in this volume span a wide range of countries, from Portugal, Italy, and the Netherlands to Mexico and Israel.

Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781408828885

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Survival of the Beautiful by David Rothenberg Pdf

A brilliant investigation of why nature is beautiful and how art has influenced science 'Rothenberg's passionate optimism - a belief in the beauty of nature, and vice versa - together with his elegant prose turns Survival of the Beautiful into an exhilarating and thought provoking trip' Sunday Telegraph 'The peacock's tail makes me sick,' Charles Darwin once said - not aesthetically, but because the theory of evolution as adaptation can't explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of sexual selection for Darwin to explain the emergence of beauty, a process that has more to do with aesthetic taste than adaptive fitness. Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. Taking inspiration from Darwin's observation that animals have a natural aesthetic sense, philosopher and musician David Rothenberg probes why animals, humans included, have an innate appreciation for beauty - and why nature is, indeed, beautiful.

Author : Robin P Harris
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252099885

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Storytelling in Siberia by Robin P Harris Pdf

Olonkho , the epic narrative and song tradition of Siberia 's Sakha people, declined to the brink of extinction during the Soviet era. In 2005, UNESCO 's Masterpiece Proclamation sparked a resurgence of interest in olonkho by recognizing its important role in humanity 's oral and intangible heritage. Drawing on her ten years living in the Russian North, Robin P. Harris documents how the Sakha have used the Masterpiece program to revive olonkho and strengthen their cultural identity. Harris 's personal relationships with and primary research among Sakha people provide vivid insights into understanding olonkho and the attenuation, revitalization, transformation, and sustainability of the Sakha 's cultural reemergence. Interdisciplinary in scope, Storytelling in Siberia considers the nature of folklore alongside ethnomusicology, anthropology, comparative literature, and cultural studies to shed light on how marginalized peoples are revitalizing their own intangible cultural heritage.

Author : B. Barratt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780230277199

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The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy by B. Barratt Pdf

Somatic psychology and bodymind therapy (the simultaneous study of the mind and body) are challenging contemporary understandings of the psyche, of what it means to be human and how to heal human suffering.

Author : Barnaby B. Barratt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429778315

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Beyond Psychotherapy by Barnaby B. Barratt Pdf

In Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst, Barnaby B. Barratt illuminates a new perspective on what it means to open our awareness to the depths of psychic life and restores the radicality of genuinely psychoanalytic discourse as the unique science of healing. Starting with an incisive critique of the ideological conformism of psychotherapy, Barratt defines the method of psychoanalysis against the conventional definition, which emphasizes the practice of arriving at useful interpretations about our personal existence. Instead, he shows how a negatively dialectical and deconstructive praxis successfully ‘attacks’ the self-enclosures of interpretation, allowing the speaking-listening subject to become existentially and spiritually open to hidden dimensions of our lived-experience. He also demonstrates how the erotic deathfulness of our being-in-the-world is the ultimate source of all the many resistances to genuinely psychoanalytic praxis, and the reason Freud’s discipline has so frequently been reduced to various models of psychotherapeutic treatment. Focusing on the free-associative dimension of psychoanalysis, Barratt both explores what psychoanalytic processes can achieve that psychotherapeutic ones cannot, and considers the sociopolitical implications of the radical psychoanalytic ‘take’ on the human condition. The book also offers a detailed and compassionate pointer for those wanting to train as psychoanalysts, guiding them away from what Barratt calls the ‘trade-school mentality’ pervading most training institutes today. Groundbreaking and inspiring, Beyond Psychotherapy will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and all other therapists seeking a radically innovative approach. It will also be a valuable text for scholars and students of psychoanalytic studies, social sciences, philosophy and the history of ideas.

Author : Adam J. Rock,Stanley Krippner
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781845403324

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Demystifying Shamans and Their World by Adam J. Rock,Stanley Krippner Pdf

Shamanism can be described as a group of techniques by which its practitioners enter the “spirit world,” purportedly obtaining information that is used to help and to heal members of their social group. Despite a resurgence of interest in shamanism and shamanic states of consciousness, these phenomena are neither well-defined nor sufficiently understood. This multi-disciplinary study draws on the fields of psychology, philosophy and anthropology with the aim of demystifying shamanism. The authors analyse conflicting perspectives regarding shamanism, the epistemology of shamanic states of consciousness, and the nature of the mental imagery encountered during these states.

Author : Ismael Eduardo Apud Peláez
Publisher : PUBLICACIONS UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788484248347

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Ayahuasca: Between Cognition and Culture by Ismael Eduardo Apud Peláez Pdf

This book summarizes Ismael Apud’s ethnographic research in the field of ayahuasca, conducted in Latin America and Catalonia over a period of 10 years. To analyze the variety of ayahuasca spiritual practices and beliefs, the author combines different approaches, including medical anthropology, cognitive science of religion, history of science, and religious studies. Ismael Apud is a psychologist and anthropologist from Uruguay, with a PhD in Anthropology at Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Author : Mihály Hoppál,Zsuzsanna Simonkay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Shamanism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133015359

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Shamans Unbound by Mihály Hoppál,Zsuzsanna Simonkay Pdf