Shaman Patterns of Religious Healing among the Ojibway Indians

Name: Shaman Patterns of Religious Healing among the Ojibway Indians
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ISBN: 9780806121062

ISBN-10: 0806121068

ISBN-13: 9780806121062

Edition: N/A

Authors: John A. Grim

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Tribal peoples believe that the shaman experiences, absorbs, and communicates a special mode of power, sustaining and healing. This book discusses American Indian shamanic traditions, particularly those of the Woodland Ojibway, in terms drawn from the classical shamanism of Siberian peoples. Using a cultural-historical method, John A. Grim describes the spiritual formation of shamans, male and female, and elucidates the special religious experience that they transmit to their tribes. Writing as a historian of religion well acquainted with ethnological materials, Grim identifies four patterns in the shamanic experience: cosmology, tribal sanction, ritual reenactment, and trance experience.…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 3/15/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English