Thomas A. DuBois is the Birgit Baldwin Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he teaches in the fields of Scandinavian Studies, Folklore Studies and Religious Studies. He is author and editor of five books including Nordic Religions in the Viking Age (1999) and Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia (2008).
Preface
Part I. Introductions: 1. Shamanism and the issue of religion
2. A history of shamanic encounters
3. Shamanism in archaeological evidence
Part II. Shamanic Soteriology and Ritual: 4. Cosmology and the work of the shaman
5. The call and initiation
6. Mediating the spirit world: shamanic roles and careers
Part III. Examining Ritual Effectiveness: 7. Séance, trance and the shamanic mind
8. Shamans, clients, and healing
Part IV. The Shamanic Arsenal: 9. Music and entheogens: pathways to ecstasy
10. The material culture of shamanism
11. Shamanic verbal art
Part V. Shamanic Politics in a Changing World: 12. Shamanism under attack
13. Shamanic revitalizations
14. Neoshamanism
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.
Preface
Part I. Introductions: 1. Shamanism and the issue of religion
2. A history of shamanic encounters
3. Shamanism in archaeological evidence
Part II. Shamanic Soteriology and Ritual: 4. Cosmology and the work of the shaman
5. The call and initiation
6. Mediating the spirit world: shamanic roles and careers
Part III. Examining Ritual Effectiveness: 7. Séance, trance and the shamanic mind
8. Shamans, clients, and healing
Part IV. The Shamanic Arsenal: 9. Music and entheogens: pathways to ecstasy
10. The material culture of shamanism
11. Shamanic verbal art
Part V. Shamanic Politics in a Changing World: 12. Shamanism under attack
13. Shamanic revitalizations
14. Neoshamanism
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.
