Becoming a Shaman: Narratives of Apprenticeship and Initiation in Contemporary Shamanism

This article, based on an open-question survey completed in 2018, engages with McAdams and Manczak’s approaches to life stories (2015) and Mayer’s ten elements of the shaman myth (2008) to explore the way contemporary people based in the UK, who define themselves as shamans, talk about their becomin...

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Authors: Ivanescu, Carolina (Author) ; Berentzen, Sterre (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2020]
In: Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 3
Further subjects:B agency and hierarchy
B Apprenticeship
B narrative construction
B UK
B contemporary western shamans
B Initiation
B traditional and neo-shamanism
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