Frontmatter -- Introduction / BHARATI, AGEHANANDA -- SECTION ONE -- Neo-Hindu Acculturation: An Alternative to "Instant Chemical Religion" / FORNARO, ROBERT J. -- Lévi-Strauss in Fairyland / McDOUGALL, LORNA -- Gods, Kings, and the Caste System in India / MAHAPATRA, L. K. -- Shamanism as a Profession / MANNING, R. O. -- Religion and Human Play / NORBECK, EDWARD -- The Akan Stool Polity: A Political Organization / QUARCOO, ALFRED KOFI -- Religious Change in a Northern Nigerian Emirate / SALAMONE, FRANK A. -- SECTION TWO -- Deified Men and Humanized Gods: Some Folk Bases of Hindu Theology / AIYAPPAN, A. -- Shamanism in Central Asia / BASILOV, V. -- Shaman and Priest in Yucatán Pentecostalism / GOODMAN, FELICITAS D. -- Sense Stimulation and Ritual Response: Classifying the Religious Symbolism of the Persian and Yemenite Jews / LOEB, LAURENCE D. -- Characteristics of Sisala Diviners / MENDONSA, EUGENE L. -- The Goddess Cult in the Hebrew-Jewish Religion / PATAI, RAPHAEL -- Tibetan Oracles / PETER PRINCE OF GREECE AND DENMARK -- Breaking Ties with Deceased Spouse / ROSENBLATT, PAUL C. / WALSH, R. PATRICIA / JACKSON, DOUGLAS A. -- The Spirit "Rides" or the Spirit "Comes": Possession in a North Indian Village / WADLEY, SUSAN S. -- The Shamanistic Element in Taiwanese Folk Religion / SUZUKI, MITSUO -- The Study of Shamanism among the Peoples of Siberia and the North / VDOVIN, I. S. -- SECTION THREE -- Altered States of Consciousness in Northern Iroquoian Ritual / LEX, BARBARA W. -- Shamanism, Trance, Hallucinogens, and Psychical Events: Concepts, Methods, and Techniques for Fieldwork among Primitives / LONG, JOSEPH K. -- The Culture-Historical Origin of Shamanism / NACHTIGALL, HORST -- The Role of Women in the Male Cults of the Soromaja in New Guinea / OOSTERWAL, GOTTFRIED -- Certain Aspects of the Study of Siberian Shamanism / POTAPOV, L. P. -- Learning of Psychodynamics, History, and Diagnosis Management Therapy by a Kali Cult Indigenous Healer in Guiana / SINGER, PHILIP / ARANETA, ENRIQUE / NAIDOO, JAMSIE -- A Peruvian Curandero's Séance: Power and Balance / SHARON, DOUGLAS -- SECTION FOUR -- Esoteric Rituals in Japanese Traditional Secret Societies: A Study of the Death and Rebirth Motif / AYABE, TSUNEO -- Ritual, Myth, and the Murdered President / WILLNER, DOROTHY -- SECTION FIVE -- Pandharpur Priesthood: Its Changing Role, Functions, and Future / DINGRE, G. V. -- An Anthropomorphic Shamanic Musical Instrument from the Eighth to Twelfth Centuries A.D. / KRALOVÁNSZKY, A. -- Rousalia: The Ritual Worship of the Dead / LITSAS, F. K. -- Personifications of Capes and Rocks in the Hellenic Seas / LOUKATOS, DEMETRIOS -- Historical Reality and Russian Supernatural Beings / OINAS, FELIX J. -- Some Findings Concerning the Nomenclature and Functions of Certain Lacandon Mayan Deities / PETRYSHYN, JAROSLAW THEODORE -- The Moon-Mythical Character of the God Yü-huang / TU ER-WEI, JOHN -- Was Espingo (Ispincu) of Psychotropic and Intoxicating Importance for the Shamans in Peru? / WASSÉN, S. HENRY -- Epilogue / SARAF, SAMARENDRA -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjectsweiterlesen