From Culture to Experience: Shamanism in the Pages of the Soviet Anti-Religious Press
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AbstractIn the 1960s a shift occured in how shamanism was represented in Soviet anti-religious journals, in which shamanism was transformed from an ethnographically documented cultural practice peculiar to Siberian indigenous populations, into an – albeit ‘primitive’ – form of a universal human capacity for altered states of consciousness and a precursor of various forms of mysticism. The article argues that this shift coincided with a shift in the Soviet atheist project, as well as a point of comparison that reveals similarities and differences between Soviet and Western modernist projects.
2018 ◽
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1975 ◽
Vol 2
(23)
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pp. 882-884