‘I haven’t fully understood – is shamanism religion or not?’
In this essay the Marxist-Leninist understanding of the concept ‘religion’ is analysed in relation to how it was applied to the so-called shamanism of the indigenous peoples of the Soviet North. The point of departure is the correspondence between the head of the Council for the Affairs of Religious...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Finnish Society for the Study of Religion
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Temenos |
| Online Access: | https://journal.fi/temenos/article/view/73111 |