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Redefining shamanisms : spiritualist mediums and other traditional shamans as apprenticeship outcomes /
Spiritualism and mediumship are often regarded as the product of lingering superstition in the Victorian era, and as having limited relevance in modern Anglo-American society. Scholarship to date which has considered Spiritualism as a distinct religious tradition has focussed on analysing the phenom...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Continuum International Publishing Group,
2013.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury advances in religious studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; A Spiritualist church service: Questions arising; Mediums and shamans: Different traditions?; Shamanism: A formal definition; How to explore mediumship?; 2 Spiritualism: A modern movement; Outlining Spiritualism; Spiritualism: Believing in modernity; Conclusion; 3 Understanding mediumship; The acknowledged medium: His role and craft; Varieties of mediumistic experience and practice; Trance and mediumistic consciousness; The mediumistic apprenticeship.
- Conclusion: Apprenticeship and the maintenance of tradition4 Case study I: Portobello Spiritualist Church, Edinburgh; Introduction; The members and structure of the Church; Church activities; The Church within the British Spiritualist movement; The Portobello apprenticeship; Conclusion; 5 Shamanism: The development of a model; Introduction; Overview: From performer to technique; Mircea Eliade; Responses to Eliade; Conclusion; 6 Case study II: The Evenki; Introduction; Evenki lands and society; Shamanism among the Evenki; Apprenticeship in Evenki shamanism; Conclusion: Comparisons and causes.
- 7 An apprenticeship model of shamanic practiceThe model; Testing the model: Other shamanisms; Testing the model: Apprenticeship and boundaries; Apprenticeship and cognition; Appendix: Principles of Spiritualist organizations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.