Shamanic Materialities in Nordic Climates Paperback / softback
by Trude (The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - the Arctic University of Norway) Fonneland, Tiina (University of Oulu) Aikas
Part of the Elements in New Religious Movements series
Paperback / softback
Description
This Element takes its starting point in shamanism in the Nordic countries and explores expressions and the lives of shamanic materialities in contemporary Finland and Norway.
Shamans interact with spiritual powers and beings, but their religious practices unfold in a material reality.
In this Element, then, we begin with the materiality of shamanism and focus on how the drum, the sacrificial site, the power animal, and a mushroom bridge the gap between the profane and the divine and create networks and dynamics in a shamanic worldview as well as in the wider society.
Throughout its sections, the authors inquire into the ways the construction of the category shamanism makes shamanic materialities come to life. And, in contrast, how shamanic materialities form shamanism and facilitate constantly formative exchanges and dynamics between the local and global, past and present, secular and spiritual, time and space.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:75 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/09/2023
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- ISBN:9781009376402
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:75 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/09/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009376402
