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Pursuing special experiences that take them to the brink of permanent madness or death, men and women in every age have "returned" to heal and comfort their fellow human beings--and these shamans have fascinated students of society from Herodotus to Mircea Eliade. Gloria Flaherty's book is about the first Western encounters with shamanic peoples and practices. Flaherty makes us see the eighteenth century as an age in which explorers were fascinating all Europe with tales of shamans who accomplished a "self-induced cure for a self-induced fit." Reports from what must have seemed a forbidden world of strange rites and moral licentiousness came from botanists, geographers, missionaries, and other travelers of the period, and these accounts created such a stir that they permeated caf talk, journal articles, and learned debates, giving rise to plays, encyclopedia articles, art, and operas about shamanism. The first part of the book describes in rich detail how information about shamanism entered the intellectual mainstream of the eighteenth century. In the second part Flaherty analyzes the artistic and critical implications of that process. In so doing, she offers remarkable chapters on Diderot, Herder, Goethe, and the cult of the genius of Mozart, as well as a chapter devoted to a new reading of Goethe's Faust that views Faust as the modern shaman.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems - both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.
Shamanism --- Arctic peoples --- -Shamanism --- Arctic races --- Circumpolar peoples --- Hyperboreans --- -Sjamanisme. Shamanisme --- -291.612 Sjamanisme. Shamanisme --- Human ecology --- 291.612 --- 291.612 Sjamanisme. Shamanisme --- Sjamanisme. Shamanisme --- Religions --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Ethnology --- Religion&delete& --- Congresses --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Religion --- Arctic regions --- Shamanism - Congresses. --- Shamanism - Arctic regions - Congresses. --- Arctic peoples - Religion - Congresses. --- Human ecology - Arctic regions - Congresses. --- Shamanism - Arctic regions - Congresses --- Human ecology - Congresses --- Arctic peoples - Religion - Congresses --- Human ecology - Arctic regions - Congresses --- Shamanism - Congresses
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291.612 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Ecstasy --- Spirit possession --- Religion and sociology --- Shamanism --- Religions --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion) --- Subconsciousness --- Hysteria --- 291.612 Sjamanisme. Shamanisme --- Sjamanisme. Shamanisme --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Ecstasy. --- Religion and sociology. --- Shamanism. --- Spirit possession. --- Extase --- Sociologie religieuse --- Possession par les esprits
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