The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
By John A. Grim.
Description
Tribal peoples believe that the shaman experiences, absorbs, and communicates a special mode of power, sustaining and healing. This book discusses American Indian shamanic traditions, particularly those of the Woodland Ojibway, in terms drawn from the classical shamanism of Siberian peoples. Using a cultural-historical method, John A. Grim describes the spiritual formation of shamans, male and female, and elucidates the special religious experience that they transmit to their tribes.Writing as a historian of religion well acquainted with ethnological materials, Grim identifies four patterns...
ISBN(s)
0806121068, 9780806121062
