Shamanism and Northern EcologyJuha Pentikäinen Walter de Gruyter, 1996 - 386 pages The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series. |
Contents
Foreword | 1 |
A new look at the world pillar in Arctic and subArctic religions | 31 |
G Jungs appropriation of aspects of shamanism | 51 |
Body and soul in ancient Greenlandic religion | 67 |
Freyja and Frigg two aspects of the Great Goddess | 81 |
The perception of the Saamis and their religion in Old Norse | 97 |
Some aspects of the Christianization of Central Sweden | 117 |
Rationality and mythological foundations of calendar symbols | 135 |
Some remarks on the myths of the Flower Contest | 221 |
The concept of gods in Korean shamanism | 235 |
Recent East Mongolian shamanistic traditions | 249 |
the sacred | 267 |
Ainu worldview and bear hunting strategies | 293 |
Salmon in myth and ritual in the Northern Pacific area | 313 |
A dialogue between a shaman and a missionary in West Green | 333 |
A Christian Dene Tha shaman? | 349 |
Notions of the soul | 143 |
Similarities and differences in Eastern Khanty shamanism | 183 |
Ugric mithraism | 199 |
The effect of the confessional factor on ethnicity | 365 |
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aboriginal According Adler Ainu Alexis ancient angakkoq angakkut animals archaic Arctic bear beliefs Big Salmon Buryats calendar called century ceremony Chateh Christian concept cult culture dead death deity Dene Tha divine dreamer drum dzyokaso earth Egede Eliade ethnic Evenks Finno-Ugric fish Flateyjarbók flower contest folklore Fordham Freyja Frigg goddess gods Greenland Harva heaven Heimskringla helping spirits Helsinki Hokkaido Hultkrantz human hunter hunting Jónsson Jung Kamui Khanty Khanty and Mansi killed king Komi Komi-Zyryans language living Maitreya Mansi mentioned Mir-susne-khum missionary Moscow motif myth mythical mythology native North Northern Norway Norwegian Ob-Ugrians Odin Old Norse origin Pentikäinen person population priests refer region reindeer religion religious Reykjavík rites ritual river role Russian Saamis sacrifice saga salmon scholars Selkup shaman shamanistic Siberia society soul sources Stepanovits story symbols tion traditional Tungus Ugrians village women word world pillar world tree worldview Zyryans