LEADER 03484nam 22006371 450 001 9910806125103321 005 20121025125411.0 010 $a1-4725-5256-3 010 $a1-283-95066-9 010 $a1-4411-2644-9 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472552563 035 $a(CKB)2670000000327139 035 $a(EBL)1113784 035 $a(OCoLC)827209776 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000820322 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12369538 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820322 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10858222 035 $a(PQKB)10998789 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1113784 035 $a(OCoLC)825066885 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255529 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000327139 100 $a20140929d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRedefining shamanisms $espiritualist mediums and other traditional shamans as apprenticeship outcomes /$fDavid Gordon Wilson 205 $aFirst [edition.]. 210 1$aNew York :$cContinuum International Publishing Group,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 225 0 $aBloomsbury advances in religious studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4725-7904-6 311 $a1-4411-5950-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $a"Spiritualism and mediumship are often regarded as the product of lingering superstition in the Victorian era, and as having limited relevance in modern Anglo-American society. Scholarship to date which has considered Spiritualism as a distinct religious tradition has focussed on analysing the phenomenon in terms of spirit possession only. This volume analyses the development of shamanism (communication with the spiritual world) as a concept within North American English-speaking scholarship, with particular focus on Mircea Eliade's influential cross-cultural presentation of shamanism. By re-examining the work of Sergei Shirokogoroff, one of Eliade's principal sources, the traditional Evenki shamanic apprenticeship is compared and identified with the new Spiritualist apprenticeship. The author demonstrates that Spiritualism is best understood as a traditional shamanism, as distinct from contemporary appropriations or neo-shamanisms. He argues that shamanism is the outcome of an apprenticeship in the management of psychic experiences, and which follows the same pattern as that of the apprentice medium. In doing so, the author offers fresh insights into the mechanisms that are key to sustaining mediumship as a social institution."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aBloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies 606 $aApprenticeship programs 606 $aShamanism 606 $aSpiritualism 606 $2Religion: general 615 0$aApprenticeship programs. 615 0$aShamanism. 615 0$aSpiritualism. 676 $a201/.44 700 $aWilson$b David Gordon$0149895 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806125103321 996 $aRedefining shamanisms$93946546 997 $aUNINA