Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A new look at the world pillar in Arctic and sub-Arctic religions / Åke Hultkrantz
  • C.G. Jung's appropriation of aspects of shamanism / John P. Dourley
  • Game and games, fortune and dualism in Siberian shamanism / Roberte N. Hamayon
  • Body and soul in ancient Greenlandic religion / Robert Petersen
  • Freyja and Frigg
  • two aspects of the Great Goddess / Britt-Mari Näsström
  • The perception of the Saamis and their religion in Old Norse sources / Else Mundal
  • Some aspects of the Christianization of central Sweden / Anne-Sofie Gräslund
  • The wizards of Lapland and Saami shamanism / Vladimir Shumkin
  • Rationality and mythological foundations of calendar symbols of the ancient Komi / Nikolay Konakov
  • Materials on Koni-Zyryan mythology : notions of the soul / Alexander Teryukov
  • Khanty shamanism today : reindeer sacrifice and its mythological background / Juha Pentikäinen
  • Similarities and differences in Eastern Khanty shamanism / Ágnes Kerezsi
  • Ugric Mithraism / Ismail Gemuev
  • Khanty and Mansi : the contemporary linguistic situation / Elena Skribnik and Natalya Koshkaryova
  • Some remarks on the myths of the flower contest / Manabu Waida
  • The concept of gods in Korean shamanism / Tae-gon Kim
  • Recent East Mongolian shamanistic traditions / Walther Heissig
  • Shamanistic elements in early Confucianism / Pertti Nikkilä
  • Mythology as an areal problem in the Altai-Sayan area : the sacred holes and caves / Maria M. Tátar
  • Archaic rites in Nanaian shamanic ceremonies / Tatyana Boulgakova
  • Ainu worldview and bear hunting strategies / Takashi Irimoto
  • Some shamanistic features of Ainu religion / Kan Wada
  • Salmon in myth and ritual in the Northern Pacific area / Taryo Obayashi
  • A dialogue between a shaman and a missionary in West Greenland in the 18th century : the sociology of a text / Inge Kleivan
  • A Christian Dene Tha shaman? Aboriginal experiences among a missionized aboriginal people / Jean-Guy Goulet
  • The effect of the confessional factor on ethnicity / Ludmila Kuzmina
  • Christianization = Russification? On preserving the religious and ethnic identity of the Ob-Ugrians / Elena Glavatskaya.