1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911104979403321

Autore

Wilson David Gordon

Titolo

Redefining shamanisms : spiritualist mediums and other traditional shamans as apprenticeship outcomes / / David Gordon Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Continuum International Publishing Group, , 2013

ISBN

1-4725-5256-3

1-283-95066-9

1-4411-2644-9

Edizione

[First [edition.].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Bloomsbury advances in religious studies

Disciplina

201/.44

Soggetti

Apprenticeship programs

Shamanism

Spiritualism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Spiritualism: A Modern Movement -- 3. Understanding Mediumship -- 4. Case Study I: Portobello Spiritualist Church -- 5. Shamanism in North American Scholarship: the Genealogy of a Model -- 6. Case Study II: the Evenki -- 7. Conclusions: An Apprenticeship Model of Shamanic Practice.

Sommario/riassunto

"Spiritualism and mediumship are often regarded as the product of lingering superstition in the Victorian era, and as having limited relevance in modern Anglo-American society. Scholarship to date which has considered Spiritualism as a distinct religious tradition has focussed on analysing the phenomenon in terms of spirit possession only. This volume analyses the development of shamanism (communication with the spiritual world) as a concept within North American English-speaking scholarship, with particular focus on Mircea Eliade's influential cross-cultural presentation of shamanism. By re-examining the work of Sergei Shirokogoroff, one of Eliade's principal sources, the traditional Evenki shamanic apprenticeship is compared and identified with the new Spiritualist apprenticeship. The author demonstrates that Spiritualism is best understood as a traditional shamanism, as distinct from contemporary appropriations or neo-



shamanisms. He argues that shamanism is the outcome of an apprenticeship in the management of psychic experiences, and which follows the same pattern as that of the apprentice medium. In doing so, the author offers fresh insights into the mechanisms that are key to sustaining mediumship as a social institution."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911135152303321

Autore

Kennedy Emmet

Titolo

Abbé Sicard's Deaf Education : Empowering the Mute, 1785-1820 / / by Emmet Kennedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015

ISBN

9781137512864

1137512865

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 212 p.)

Classificazione

HIS013000HIS037060LAN017000

Disciplina

371.91/2092

Soggetti

Historical linguistics

Language and languages - Study and teaching

France - History

History, Modern

Semiotics

Europe - History

Historical Linguistics

Language Education

History of France

Modern History

European History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- One: The Ascent to Paris -- Two: Passport through the Terror -- Three: A Refractory



Priest in the Republic of Professors -- Four: Sicard and Napoleon -- Five: International Signing During the Restoration -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Appendices -- I. The Library of the Abbé Sicard -- II. F. Berthier's Account of Sicard's Encounter with Bonaparte -- III. Berthier's Estimation of Sicard's Signing Method.

Sommario/riassunto

Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris and, despite his non-conformist tendencies, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the revolutionaries acknowledged his position and during the Terror of 1794, they made him the director of the first school for the deaf. Later, he became a member of the first Ecole Normale, the National Institute, and the Académie Française. He is recognized today as having developed Enlightenment theories of pantomime, "signing,' and a form of "universal language" that later spread to Russia, Spain, and America. This is the first book-length biography of Sicard published in any language since 1873, despite Sicard's international renown. This thoughtful, engaging work explores French and American sign language and deaf studies set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon.