文档介绍：RELIGIONS • HISTORY HISTORICAL
DICTIONARY
Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements, No. 77 OF
HARVEY
and
WALLIS SHAMANISM
DICTIONARY
Few religious traditions have generated such diversity and stirred imagination as HISTORICAL
shamanism. In their engagements with other worlds, shamans have conversed
with animals and ancestors and have been empowered with the knowledge to
heal patients, advise hunters, and curse enemies. Other shamans, aided by rhyth-
mic music or powerful plants, undertake journeys into different realities where OF
their actions negotiate harmony between human and other-than-mu-
SHAMANISM
nities. Once relegated to paintings on cave walls, today shamanism can be seen in
performances at rave clubs and psychotherapeutic clinics.
Historical Dictionary of Shamanism explores mon ground of shamanic
traditions and evaluates the diversity of both traditional muni-
ties and individual Western seekers through an introduction, a bibliography, a
chronology, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries that explore the
features of shamans, the purposes of shamanism, the functions and activities of
the shaman, and the cultural contexts in which shamanism makes sense.
GRAHAM HARVEY is lecturer in religious studies at The Open University,
United Kingdom.
ROBERT J. WALLIS is associate professor of visual culture and associate
director of the master’s program in art history at Richmond University, London,
as well as associate lecturer at The Open University.
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