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Shamanism and Northern Ecology
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: Themes and concepts
- A new look at the world pillar in Arctic and sub-Arctic religions
- C. G. Jung’s appropriation of aspects of shamanism
- Game and games, fortune and dualism in Siberian shamanism
- Body and soul in ancient Greenlandic religion
- Part II: Northern Europe
- Freyja and Frigg – two aspects of the Great Goddess
- The perception of the Saamis and their religion in Old Norse sources
- Some aspects of the Christianization of Central Sweden
- The wizards of Lapland and Saami shamanism
- Rationality and mythological foundations of calendar symbols of the ancient Komi
- Materials on Komi-Zyryan mythology: Notions of the soul
- Part III: Ugric People
- Khanty shamanism today: Reindeer sacrifice and its mythological background
- Similarities and differences in Eastern Khanty shamanism
- Ugric mithraism
- Khanty and Mansi: the contemporary linguistic situation
- Part IV: Central and East Asia
- Some remarks on the myths of the Flower Contest
- The concept of gods in Korean shamanism
- Recent East Mongolian shamanistic traditions
- Shamanistic elements in early Confucianism
- Mythology as an areal problem in the Altai-Sayan area: the sacred holes and caves
- Archaic rites in Nanaian shamanic ceremonies
- Part V: North Western Pacific
- Ainu worldview and bear hunting strategies
- Some shamanistic features of Ainu religion
- Salmon in myth and ritual in the Northern Pacific area
- Part VI: Encounters between ethnic and
- A dialogue between a shaman and a missionary in West Greenland in the 18th century: the sociology of a text
- A Christian Dene Tha shaman? Aboriginal experiences among a missionized aboriginal people
- The effect of the confessional factor on ethnicity
- Christianization = Russification? On preserving the religious and ethnic identity of the Ob-Ugrians