ANGELA'S SYMPOSIUM 📖 Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult

What is Core Shamanism? In this video, I will cover:

- Michael Harner and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies

- Core Shamanism and its main beliefs

- Shamanic Journey to gain knowledge, power and Soul Retrieval

- The three worlds and the cosmology of this trans-cultural shamanism.

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REFERENCES

PRIMARY SOURCES

Harner, M. (1984) The Jivaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls, New Ed edition., Berkeley, University of California Press.

Harner, M. (1992) The Way of the Shaman, San Francisco, HarperSanFrancisco.

Harner, M. J. (ed.) (1973) Hallucinogens and Shamanism, 1st Edition edition., London, Oxford University Press, USA.

Harner, M. J. (2013) Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Spirits and Heavens, Berkeley, Calif, North Atlantic Books, U.S.

Ingerman, S. (2008) Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner’s Guide, Pap/Com edition., Boulder, Colo.; Enfield, Sounds True Inc., U.S.

Ingerman, S. and Wesselman, H. (2012) Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation, Sounds True.

SECONDARY SOURCES

Atkinson, J. M. (1992) ‘Shamanisms Today’, Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 21, pp. 307–330.

Harvey, G. (2003) Shamanism: A Reader, Routledge.

Jakobsen, M. D. (1999) Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing, Reprint edition., New York, Berghahn Books.

Townsend, J. B. (2004) ‘Individualist Religious Movements: Core and Neo-shamanism’, Anthropology of Consciousness, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1–9 [Online]. DOI: 10.1525/ac.2004.15.1.1.

Wallis, R. J. (2003) Shamans/Neo-Shamans: Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans, 1 edition., London, New York, Routledge.

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Can Westerners become Shamans? Academic perspectives on Shamanism in the West

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REFERENCES

Botta, S. (2018) Dagli sciamani allo sciamanesimo: discorsi, credenze, pratiche, Carocci.

Flaherty, G. (2014) Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century, Princeton University Press.

Francfort, H. P., Hamayon, R. and Bahn, P. G. (2001) The Concept of Shamanism: Uses and Abuses, Akadémiai Kiadó.

Harvey, G. (2003) Shamanism: A Reader, Routledge.

Noel, D. C. (1999) The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imaginal Realities, New York, Continuum Intl Pub Group.

Wallis, R. J. (2003) Shamans/Neo-Shamans: Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans, 1 edition., London, New York, Routledge.

00:00 Introduction: The word Shaman

01:11 The term is evolving

02:29 Western Shamanisms

04:00 The role of the ‘exotic’

05:42 The answer

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What is Paganism? What do Pagans believe? An academic definition of Paganism.

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REFERENCES

Hutton, R. (1995) The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, New Ed edition., Oxford, Oxford University Press, U.S.A.

Pizza, M. and Lewis, J. R. (eds.) (2009) Handbook of Contemporary Paganism, Leiden-Boston, Brill.

Testa, A. (2017) ‘A Utopia of Eurasia: the Uses and Abuses of a Concept – a counter-reply to Chris Hann’, Anthropology of East Europe Review, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 64–79.

00:00 Introduction: What is Paganism

00:41 Origin of the term Pagan

01:17 Contemporary Paganism – Hutton

02:01 Traditions and traits

03:21 Nature and land

04:19 The future of Paganism

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In this interview, Dr James Kapalo will cover:

- Overview of Folk Magic in the Republic of Moldova

- Inclusion of Romanian Magic and Islamic Magic

- Types of Magical Rituals: Divination (pouring of wax, tin, lead), Evil Eye Removal, Fright

- Definition of Folk Magic and Religion

- What is Magic

- The role played by Dreams

- Traits of Magic in Moldova

- "Initiation" and how the 'Power' and the words are passed on

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James Kappalo's Institutional Page, with Publications and Contact Details: http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A040/jkapalo

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In this interview, Dr Jenny Butler covers:

- An overview of Irish Paganism

- How Wicca has been modified within the Irish context

- Types of Wicca practised in Ireland

- Fairies in Irish Pagan lore

- The Role played by Magic

- The importance of Landscape and Sacred Places

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Website: www.drjennybutler.com

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00:00 Introduction: Dr Jenny Butler

01:14 Irish Paganisms

03:20 Do the share belief systems

04:32 The most prevalent form of Paganism in Ireland

05:43 Wicca in an Irish context

07:49 Influence of ceremonial magic

10:25 Role of magick in Irish Paganism

13:29 Role of Fairies in Irish Paganism

15:09 The biggest misconception about Irish Paganism

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In this interview, Prof Bettina Schmidt talks about:

- How to understand Spirit Possession using a context-sensitive approach (deictic)

- The difference between how scholars and practitioners define religious experiences

- How to define Shamanism and the evolution of its semantics

- Her Fieldwork in Brazil with ecstatic religions.

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Bettina's Contact details:

Prof Bettina Schmidt

Director of the Religious Experience Research Centre

Institute of Education and Humanities

University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Lampeter, UK

Email: [email protected]

STUDIES MENTIONED IN THE INTERVIEW

Lambek, M. (2009) ‘Provincializing God? Provocations from an anthropology of religion’, in de Vries, H. (ed), Religion: Beyond a Concept, Fordham Univ Press, pp. 120–138.

Wilson, D. G. (2013) Redefining Shamanisms: Spiritualist Mediums And Other Traditional Shamans As Apprenticeship Outcomes, Bloomsbury Academic.

BETTINA'S PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Schmidt, Bettina E.

2016, co-ed. with Stephen Engler Handbook of Contemporary Brazilian Religions (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, vol. 13) DenHague: Brill.

2016, edited The Study of Religious Experience: Approaches and Methodologies. Durham: Equinox.

2016 Spirits and Trance in Brazil: Anthropology of Religious Experiences. London: Bloomsbury.

2010, co- edited with Lucy Huskinson Spirit Possession and Trance: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Continuum Advances in Religious Studies series). London: Continuum.

2008 Caribbean Diaspora in the USA: Diversity of Caribbean Religions in New York City. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate.

ARTICLES (each with DOI):

2017 Varieties of Non-Ordinary Experiences in Brazil – A Critical Review of the Contribution of Studies of ‘Religious Experience’ to the Study of Religion. International Journal for Latin American Religion, Vol. 1, pp.

DOI 10.1007/s41603-017-0006-5

2016 Contemporary Religions in Brazil. Oxford Handbooks Online, Editor-in-Chief Mark Juergensmeyer. New York: Oxford University Press. Online Publication Date: Jul 2016.

DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935420.013.50.

2015 Spirit Mediumship in Brazil: The Controversy about Semi-Conscious Mediums. In: DISKUS: The Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, Vol. 17 (2), pp. 38-53.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18792/diskus.v17i2.70

00:00 Introduction: Prof Bettina Schmidt

01:42 Deictic methodology

09:35 What is Glocalise?

10:50 Mediumship is not possession

12:04 Discrepancy between belief and action

14:51 Defining Shamanism

18:56 Influence of Saints

22:00 Shamanism generally

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What's the difference between Indigenous Shamanism and Western Neo Shamanism? The 5 main traits of trans-cultural shamanisms as practised in the Western World!

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REFERENCES

Atkinson, J. M. (1992) ‘Shamanisms Today’, Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 21, pp. 307–330.

Berman, M. (2009) The Nature of Shamanism and the Shamanic Story, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Geertz, A. W. (2003) ‘Can we move beyond Primitivism?’, in Olupona, J. K. (ed), Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity, New York, Routledge, pp. 37–70.

Harner, M. (1992) The Way of the Shaman, San Francisco, San Francisco, Harper. [primary source]

Jakobsen, M. D. (1999) Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing, Reprint edition., New York, Berghahn Books.

Johnson, P. C. (1995) ‘Shamanism from Ecuador to Chicago: A Case Study in New Age Ritual Appropriation’, Religion, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 163–178.

Vitebsky, P. (2000) ‘Shamanism’, in Harvey, G. (ed), Indigenous Religions, London, New York, Cassell, pp. 55–67.

Wallis, R. J. (2003) Shamans/Neo-Shamans: Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans, 1 edition., London, New York, Routledge.

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Where does the term 'magic' come from and what was the original meaning of magic? The history of the term magic in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE.

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REFERENCES

Bremmer, J. N. (1999) ‘The Birth of the Term “Magic”’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, vol. 126, pp. 1–12.

Collins, D. (2008) Magic in the Ancient Greek World, John Wiley & Sons.

Hoad, T. F. H. F. (2003) ‘Magic’, in Hoad, T. F. (ed), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, Oxford University Press [Online].

00:00 Introduction: Origin of the term

00:51 First occurrence in classical period

01:51 Persian magos vs Greek góês

04:11 Crossing over to Latin

04:19 Via French to English

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How does an Academic Conference Work? What to expect when attending a conference?

What is a Panel, what is a Paper and what a Keynote?

Why is Networking important? How do you network?

How can attending conferences help you publish in peer-reviewed journals and advance in your career?

Watch the whole video to find out!

I will explain the typical structure and programme of a conference, using as an example the Conference of the British Association for the Study of Religion, which took place on September 2019 at Leeds Trinity University, UK.

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What is Shamanism? Who is the Shaman? Academic definitions and controversies surrounding Shamanism and my proposal to a new definition of Shamanism.

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ERRATA CORRIGE: The definition 'Other-than-human persons' was actually first introduced by Hallowell and later adopted by Harvey. Its first account is found in

Hallowell, A. I. (1960) Ojibwa Ontology, Behavior, and World View, Columbia University Press.

REFERENCES

Bowie, F. (2006) The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction, 2 edition., Malden, MA ; Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell.

Cacopardo, A. S. (2009) ‘La trance sciamanica: esperienza estatica o performance rituale?’, in Scalera McClintock, G. and Conforti, R. (eds), La mente e l’estasi, Atti del convegno, Salerno, Rubbettino - Università degli Studi di Salerno, pp. 29–44 ).

Eliade, M. (1972) Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (trans. W. R. Trask), Princeton, Princeton University Press.

Harvey, G. (2010) ‘Animism rather than Shamanism: New Approaches to what Shamans do (for other animists)’, in Schmidt, B. E. and Huskinson, L. (eds), Spirit Possession and Trance: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 16–34.

Harvey, G. and Wallis, R. J. (2015) Historical Dictionary of Shamanism, Rowman & Littlefield.

Hutton, R. (2006) ‘Shamanism: Mapping the Boundaries’, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 209–213.

Mikhailovskii, V. M. and Wardrop, O. (1895) Shamanism in Siberia and European Russia, Being the Second Part of ‘Shamanstvo’, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 24.

Owen, S. (2017) ‘What is Shamanism?’ In A.W. Hughes & R.T. McCutcheon (eds) Religion in Five Minutes (London; Oakville, CT: Equinox), 207-11.

Potter, J. and Edwards, D. (1996) ‘Discourse Analysis’, in Banyard, P. and Grayson, A. (eds), Introducing Psychological Research: Sixty Studies that Shape Psychology, London, Macmillan Education UK, pp. 419–425.

Schmidt, B. E. (2016) Spirits and Trance in Brazil: An Anthropology of Religious Experience, Bloomsbury Publishing.

Stutley, M. (2002) Shamanism: An Introduction, London ; New York, Routledge.

Taira, T. (2013) ‘Making space for discursive study in religious studies’, Religion, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 26–45.

Tedeschi, E. (2017) ‘Omatakuyassi: la metànoia transculturale’, Democrazia e Sicurezza - Democracy and Security Review, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 365–403.

Willerslev, R. (2007) Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs, 1 edition., Berkeley, University of California Press.

00:00 Introduction What is Shamanism?

01:42 The origin of the term Shaman

03:04 Mircea Eliade’s definition

06:18 The common traits of Shamanism

08:14 A new approach

09:01 Deixis – context is key

13:01 Who decides who is a Shaman

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