Nordic Neoshamanisms

Introduction: Nordic Neo-Shamanisms; Siv Ellen Kraft, Trude Fonneland, James R. Lewis PART I: BACKGROUND 1. Late Modern Shamanism: Central Texts and Issues; Olav Hammer PART II: LATE MODERN SHAMANISM IN NORDIC COUNTRIES 2. The Rise of Neo Shamanism in Norway: Local Structures – Global Currents Trude Fonneland 3. The Way of the Teacher; Merete Demant Jakobsen 4. Shared Facilities: The Fabric of Shamanism, Spiritism, and Therapy in a Nordic Setting; Anne Kalvig 5. Shamanism – A Spiritual Heritage? The Significance of the Past in Shamanic Discourses; Torunn Selberg 6. Metroshamanism: A Search for Shamanic Identity in Modern Estonia; Henno Parks 7. New Age Medicine Men vs. New Age Noaidi: Same Neo-Shamanism, Different Socio-Political Situation; James R. Lewis 8. More or Less Genuine Shamans! The believer in an exchange between antiquity and modernity, between the local and the global; Bente Gullveig Alver PART III: NEO-SHAMANISM IN SECULAR CONTEXTS 9. Sami Shamanism and Indigenous Film: The Case of Pathfinder; Cato Christensen 10. Contextualizing Exhibited Versions of Sámi Noaidevuohta; Stein R. Mathisen 11. The Festival Isogaisa: Neo Shamanism in New Arenas; Trude Fonneland 12. Shamanism and Indigenous Soundscapes. The Case of Mari Boine; Siv Ellen Kraft