Northern Religions and Shamanism

Proto-uralic World Picture : A Reconstruction / V.v. Napolskikh -- Myth And Reality In The Ancient Culture Of The Northern Peoples / A. Bartha -- The Uralic Background To An Udmurt Sacrifice : An Attempt At Reading Mythological Texts / V.v. Napolskikh -- The Concept Of Pyhä (sacred) In Pre-christian Finnish Religion / V. Anttonen -- Sacred Language And Secret Speech / I. Lovasz -- Hungarian Creation Legends / I. Nagy -- Tödis In The Folk Beliefs Of The Komi People / I.v. Ilyina -- Peasant Ecotypes Of Folk Religion / E. Bartha -- Death And Ethnicity / J. Czövek -- The Semantics Of The Double Burial In A Karelian Funeral Rite / T. Utriainen -- Religious Attitudes, Values, And World Views : A Study Among Contemporary Young Finns / H. Helve -- Present-day Worldview Among West Greenlandic Inuit / H.g. Hansen -- Spiritual Aspects Of Tlingit Oratory / N. Marks-dauenhauer, R. Dauenhauer -- Russian Orthodoxy In Alaska / L. Black -- Can Grave Customs Be Taken Over By One Ethnic Group From Another? / I. Zachrisson -- The Purpose And Content Of The Petroglyphs In The Onega Region / E. Emits -- Supernatural Heroes In Finno-ugric Shamanism / C. Corradi-musi -- Game And Games, Fortune And Dualism In Siberian Shamanism / R. Hamayon -- Aspects Of Saami (lapp) Shamanism / A. Hultkrantz -- Rethinking Inuit Shamanism Through The Concept Of 'third Gender' / B. Saladin D'anglure -- Pain In Shamanic Initiation / M. Hoppál -- Traces Of Shamanism In The Udmurt Ethnic Tradition / B. Khrushcheva -- The Cosmology Of Finnish Shamanistic Folk Poetry / B. Polttila -- Aspects Of The Other World In Irish Folk Tradition / M. Karjala -- Shetland Finn-men -- Interpretations Of Shamanism? / J. Mack -- Shamanism And Paranormal Perception In The Saami Tradition / B. Sommarström -- Psychoimmunological Effects Of Shamanic Drumming / S.d. Harner, W.w. Tryon. Edited By Mihály Hoppál And Juha Pentikäinen. The Regional Conference Of The International Association Of [sic] The History Of Religions--p. [v]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.