An Introduction to Shamanism Hardback (Introduction to Religion) - Hardcover

DuBois

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521873533 ISBN 13: 9780521873536

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Shamans are professionals who make use of personal supernatural experiences as a resource for the wider community's physical and spiritual well-being. This book introduces the beliefs and rituals typical of shamanic traditions around the world and the techniques used by shamans including music, entheogens, material culture and verbal performance.

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Críticas:

'... the book stands out overall as one of the best of its kind.' Robert Wallis, Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture

Biografía del autor:

Thomas A. DuBois is the Birgit Baldwin Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he teaches in the fields of Scandinavian Studies, Folklore Studies and Religious Studies. He is author and editor of five books including Nordic Religions in the Viking Age (1999) and Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia (2008).

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521873533
• ISBN 13: 9780521873536
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 330