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Contemporary Shamanic Practice in Scotland
MaryCatherine Burgess
ISBN: 9780826499653
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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Through an examination of contemporary shamanic practice in Scotland, this work reveals a fresh paradigm of spirituality and religion that reflects how many in Western societies are responding to institutional religion. Weaving theory and practice together, it clarifies the historically difficult relationship between religion and spirituality.
Weaving theory and practice together, MaryCatherine Burgess explores the historically difficult relationship between religion and spirituality by applying cross-cultural elements of shamanism and Dani??le Hervieu-L??ger's Model of 'Religion as a Chain of Memory' to her study of contemporary shamanic practice in Scotland. Within the context of cultural and religious change, she utilises Hervieu-L??ger's analytical model to uncover a shamanic worldview that carries in its memory and practice a lineage of spirituality, not belief. This distinction sheds critical light on a new paradigm of spirituality and religion that reflects how many in Western societies currently respond to institutional religion.
| ISBN | 0826499651 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780826499653
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 476 | | Publisher | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. | | Series ISSN | 2 | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Continuum Advances in Religious Studies | | Publication date | 17 Apr 2008 | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Library of Congress | 2007037292 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 204 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Postgraduate | | Pages | 208 | |
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| 1 | | Religion, Spirituality and Contemporary Shamanic Practice in Scotland - Exploring the Relationships | | 1 | | 2 | | The Impacts of Transformational Cultural Change on Religion and Spirituality | | 28 | | 3 | | Seeking a New Definition of Religion | | 51 | | 4 | | What is Shamanism? | | 86 | | 5 | | A Case Study of Three Shamanic Practice Groups in Scotland | | 111 | | 6 | | Exploring Connections Between Cross-Cultural Shamanic Elements and Neo-Shamanic Expressions in Scotland: Interviews, Participant Observation, and Analysis | | 133 | | 7 | | Applying Hervieu-Leger's Analytical Model of Religion to Reveal a Lineage of Spirituality, not Belief, in the Shamanic Chain of Memory | | 157 | | 8 | | Patterns, Conclusions, and Resulting Issues | | 177 | | 9 | | Seeing Differently - A New Paradigm of Spirituality and Religion | | 195 | | | | Bibliography | | 199 | | | | Index | | 207 |
"A fascinating reading on the contemporary forms of urban shamanism in Scotland."Mihaly Hoppal, president of the International Society for Shamanistic Research (Budapest, Hungary)  Be the first to write a customer review
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