Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic

Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in North European Paganism

Jenny Blain (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2001
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-25651-3 (ISBN)

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This accessible case study of Northern European shamanistic practice, or seidr, explores the way in which the ancient Norse belief systems have been rediscovered and reinvented by groups in Europe and North America.

This accessible study of Northern European shamanistic practice, or seidr, explores the way in which the ancient Norse belief systems evoked in the Icelandic Sagas and Eddas have been rediscovered and reinvented by groups in Europe and North America. The book examines the phenomenon of altered consciousness and the interactions of seid-workers or shamanic practitioners with their spirit worlds. Written by a follower of seidr, it investigates new communities involved in a postmodern quest for spiritual meaning.

Jenny Blain is a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University where she leads the MA in Social Research Methods. Her research interests centre on issues of identity, gender, paganism and shamanism, social theory and experiential ethnography.

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Shamanism, Ecstasy and Experiential Ethnography; 2. The Saying of the Norns; 3. The Greenland Seeress: Seidr as Shamanistic Practice; 4. Approaching the Spirits; 5. The Journey in the Mound; 6. Re-evaluating the Witch-Queen; 7. 'Ergi' Seid-men, Queer Transformations?; 8. The Dance of the Ancestors; Notes; Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.11.2001
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	260 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-25651-8 / 0415256518
ISBN-13	978-0-415-25651-3 / 9780415256513
Zustand	Neuware