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1 online resource |
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Bloomsbury advances in religious studies |
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Bloomsbury advances in religious studies.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 phenomenon in terms of spirit possession only. This volume analyses the development of shamanism (communication with the spiritual world) as a concept within North American English-speaking scholarship, with particular focus on Mircea Eliade's influential cross-cultural presentation of shamanism. By re-ex |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Spiritualism.
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Shamanism.
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Apprenticeship programs.
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Spiritualism
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Shamanism
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spiritualism.
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shamanism.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Shamanism.
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Apprenticeship programs
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Shamanism
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Spiritualism
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441126443 |
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1441126449 |
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9781283950664 |
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1283950669 |
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9781472552563 |
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1472552563 |
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1441158766 |
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9781441158765 |
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