Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ectasy Mircea Eliade
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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ectasy

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Book Title
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ectasy
Author
Mircea Eliade
Book Condition
GOOD
ISBN
9780691017792
Book Format
Softcover
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year Published
1974
Shamanism is pre-eminently a religious phenomenon of Siberia and Central Asia; throughout this vast area, the magico-religious life of society healers and miracle-doer, psychopomp, priest, mystic, and poet. The same phenomena and techniques occur elsewhere in Asia, in Oceania, in the Americas, and among the ancient Indo-European peoples. Mircea Eliade, writing as a historian of religion, synthesises the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology. He analyses the ideology of shamanism and discusses its techniques, its symbolisms, its mythologies. For Eliade shamanism is, precisely, a technique of ectasy.

Shamanism is pre-eminently a religious phenomenon of Siberia and Central Asia; throughout this vast area, the magico-religious life of society healers and miracle-doer, psychopomp, priest, mystic, and poet. The same phenomena and techniques occur elsewhere in Asia, in Oceania, in the Americas, and among the ancient Indo-European peoples. Mircea Eliade, writing as a historian of religion, synthesises the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology. He analyses the ideology of shamanism and discusses its techniques, its symbolisms, its mythologies. For Eliade shamanism is, precisely, a technique of ectasy.

Shamanism is pre-eminently a religious phenomenon of Siberia and Central Asia; throughout this vast area, the magico-religious life of society healers and miracle-doer, psychopomp, priest, mystic, and poet. The same phenomena and techniques occur elsewhere in Asia, in Oceania, in the Americas, and among the ancient Indo-European peoples. Mircea Eliade, writing as a historian of religion, synthesises the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology. He analyses the ideology of shamanism and discusses its techniques, its symbolisms, its mythologies. For Eliade shamanism is, precisely, a technique of ectasy.