Horizons of Shamanism: A Triangular Approach to the History and Anthropology of Ecstatic Techniques: 36 (Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9176350274 ISBN 13: 9789176350270

Publisher: Stockholm University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The multifarious and sometimes contested concept of “shamanism” has aroused intense popular and scholarly interest since its initial coinage by the Russian scholar V. M. Mikhailovsky in the late 19th century. In this book, three leading scholars, representing different branches of the humanities, dwell on the current status of shamanic practices and conceptions of the soul, both as ‘etic’ scholarly categories in historical research and as foci of spiritual revitalization among the indigenous populations of post-Soviet Siberia. Framed by an introduction and a critical afterword by historian of religions Ulf Drobin, the three essays address issues crucial to the understanding of cultural history and the history of religions.

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Research Professor in CERES, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgetown, Jan N. Bremmer, professor emeritus and former Chair of Religious Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen and Carlo Ginzburg at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

The editor Peter Jackson, is Professor at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at Stockholm University.

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Peter Jackson is Professor at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at Stockholm University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stockholm University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9176350274
• ISBN 13: 9789176350270
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142
• Editor: Jackson Peter