The Shamanic Themes In Georgian Folktales

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The Shamanic Themes in Georgian Folktales

The Shamanic Themes in Georgian Folktales
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 126
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ISBN-10 : 9781443808163
ISBN-13 : 1443808164
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Book Synopsis The Shamanic Themes in Georgian Folktales by : Elliot D. Cohen

Download or read book The Shamanic Themes in Georgian Folktales written by Elliot D. Cohen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In Marxist anthropological theory, shamanism represented one of the early forms of religion that later gave rise to more sophisticated beliefs in the course of human advancement … The premise of Marxism was that eventually, at the highest levels of civilization, the sacred and religion would eventually die out” (Znamenski, 2007, p.322). Though history has of course since disproved this, the theory clearly had a great bearing on what was written in the former Soviet Union about shamanism, and also on people’s attitudes in the former Soviet Republics towards such practices. On the other hand, it has been suggested that “all intellectuals driven by nationalist sentiments directly or indirectly are always preoccupied with searching for the most ancient roots of their budding nations in order to ground their compatriots in particular soil and to make them more indigenous” (Znamenski, 2007, p.28). Although this might apply to searching for the roots of Christianity in Georgia, when it comes to searching for the roots of pagan practices, interest on the part of the people of Georgia is generally speaking not so forthcoming. This impasse, coupled with the effects of the repressions against religions, including shamanism, unleashed by the Soviet government between the 1930s and 1950s, along with the recent surge of interest in the Georgian Orthodox church, a backlash to the seventy years of officially sanctioned atheism, makes research into the subject no easy business. However, hopefully this study will at least in some small way help to set the process in motion.


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