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SUPERNATURAL IDEAS IN THE PRACTICE OF NEO-SHAMANIST SPIRITUAL HEALING: CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTI-INTUITIVE QUALITITES (Nadprirodzene predstavy v neo-samanskej praxi: charakteristika anti-intuitivnych vlastnosti)

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Durcova A.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2010
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vol. 58
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issue 1
24-40
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The article is concerned with spiritual healing in neo-shamanism. The presented materials were gathered during research in the Bratislava neo-shamanist group, led by the teacher from the Harner Foundation. Spiritual healing is the most important activity in the practice of neo-shamanism and faith in its success contributes to making neo-shamanism a successful movement. The article aims to show which cognitive factors can contribute to producing ideas of the efficacy of healing among the movement's adherents. Principally, attention is focused on analysis of the cognitive qualities of supernatural ideas which are activated during the rituals of the shamanist passage, and their connection with the idea of the efficacy of healing in neo-shamanism. The author bases her analysis of supernatural ideas on the theories of the French anthropologist Pascal Boyer. She shows that ideas are represented as agents with aims and with access to strategic information, on which the healing of the 'illness' depends. Her argument is that these qualities contribute to the faith of adherents in the success of neo-shamanist healing.
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SHAMANIC GIFT IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE: SHAMANIC HEALING AND BIOMEDICINE

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Bužeková T.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2019
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vol. 67
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issue 4
412 – 429
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Neo-shamanism or urban shamanism is a movement which concentrates on spiritual healing and aims to revive traditional shamanism. The aim of the paper is to explore the legitimation of charismatic neo-shamanic healers in relation to biomedicine which is a dominant authoritative body of medical knowledge in European societies. The paper presents the results of ethnographic research on two neo-shamanic groups operating in Slovakia. In neo-shamanism, the shaman’s abilities are represented either as learned skills, or a special spiritual gift. The latter is characteristic of charismatic persons within neo-shamanic groups. I base my argument on the understanding of charisma as rhetoric and investigate discursive strategies of two charismatic healers who belong to different kinds of neo-shamanic groups. Both support the view that the shamanic practices are compatible with biomedicine; however, they represent this compatibility in different ways. I argue that the rhetoric in the legitimation of the shamanic gift corresponds to the particular social settings and cultural background of a healer. It is manifested in the use of the concept of energy which serves as a bridge between spiritual healing and the natural sciences.
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