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Northern religions and shamanism / edited by Mihály Hoppál and Juha Pentikäinen.

By: Hoppál, Mihály
Contributor(s): Pentikäinen, Juha | Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura | Regional Conference on Circumpolar and Northern Religion (Helsinki: 1990)
Language: English Publisher: Budapest; Helsinki : Akadémiai Kiadó; Finnish Literature Society, 1992.Description: [xviii], 260p. : ill., drawings, map ; 24cm.ISBN: 9517177232; 9630563983ISSN: 0865-7408
Contents:
Contents: Proto-Uralic world picture / V.V. Napolskikh; Myth and reality in the ancient culture of the Northern peoples / A. Bartha; The Uralic background to an Udmurt sacrifice / V.V. Napolskikh; The concept of pyhä (sacred) in pre-Christian Finnish religion / V. Anttonen; Sacred language and secret speech / I. Lovász; Hungarian creation legends / I. Nagy; Tödis in the folk beliefs of the Komi people / I.V. Ilyina; Peasant ecotypes of folk religion / E. Bartha; Death and ethnicity / J. Czövek; The semantics of the double burial in a Karelian funeral rite / T. Utriainen; Religious attitudes, values and world views / H. Helve; Present -day worldview among West Greenlandic Inuit / H.G. Hansen; Spiritual aspects of Tlingit oratory / N. Marks-Dauenhauer & R. Dauenhauer; Russian Orthodoxy in Alaska / L. Black; Can grave customs be taken over by one ethnic group from another? / I. Zachrisson; The purpose and contents of the petroglyphs in the Onega region / E. Ernits; Supernatural heroes in Finno-Ugric shamanism / C. Corradi-Musi; Game and games, fortune and dualism in Siberian shamanism / R. Hamayon; Aspects of Saami (Lapp) shamanism / A. Hultkrantz; Rethinking Inuit shamanism ... / B. Saladin d'Anglure; Pain in shamanic initiation / M. Hoppál; Traces of shamanism in the Udmurt ethnic tradition / B. Khrushcheva; The cosmology of Finnish shamanistic folk poetry / B. Polttila; Aspects of the other world in Irish folk tradition / M. Karjala; Shetland Finn-men / J. Mack; Shamanism and paranormal perception in the Saami tradition / B. Sommarström; Psychoimmunological effects of shamanic drumming / S.D. Harner & W.W. Tyron.
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Consists of selected papers from the Regional Conference on Circumpolar and Northern Religion, Helsinki, May 1990, organised by the International Association of the History of Religions.

Contains bibl. references.

Contents: Proto-Uralic world picture / V.V. Napolskikh; Myth and reality in the ancient culture of the Northern peoples / A. Bartha; The Uralic background to an Udmurt sacrifice / V.V. Napolskikh; The concept of pyhä (sacred) in pre-Christian Finnish religion / V. Anttonen; Sacred language and secret speech / I. Lovász; Hungarian creation legends / I. Nagy; Tödis in the folk beliefs of the Komi people / I.V. Ilyina; Peasant ecotypes of folk religion / E. Bartha; Death and ethnicity / J. Czövek; The semantics of the double burial in a Karelian funeral rite / T. Utriainen; Religious attitudes, values and world views / H. Helve; Present -day worldview among West Greenlandic Inuit / H.G. Hansen; Spiritual aspects of Tlingit oratory / N. Marks-Dauenhauer & R. Dauenhauer; Russian Orthodoxy in Alaska / L. Black; Can grave customs be taken over by one ethnic group from another? / I. Zachrisson; The purpose and contents of the petroglyphs in the Onega region / E. Ernits; Supernatural heroes in Finno-Ugric shamanism / C. Corradi-Musi; Game and games, fortune and dualism in Siberian shamanism / R. Hamayon; Aspects of Saami (Lapp) shamanism / A. Hultkrantz; Rethinking Inuit shamanism ... / B. Saladin d'Anglure; Pain in shamanic initiation / M. Hoppál; Traces of shamanism in the Udmurt ethnic tradition / B. Khrushcheva; The cosmology of Finnish shamanistic folk poetry / B. Polttila; Aspects of the other world in Irish folk tradition / M. Karjala; Shetland Finn-men / J. Mack; Shamanism and paranormal perception in the Saami tradition / B. Sommarström; Psychoimmunological effects of shamanic drumming / S.D. Harner & W.W. Tyron.