Piers Vitebsky Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

With abundant photographs, more than 160 in color, Native North America illustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifacts of the indigenous people of North America, from the Inuit of the Canadian north to the Navajo of the American southwest.Beginning with a brief history of Native Americans, Larry Zimmerman and Brian Molyneaux explore individual culture areas, region by region. They discuss Native American spiritual observances, including personal and communal rituals, initiation rites, and curing ceremonies. Through descriptions of the powwow, rites of passage, plant rituals, oral storytelling, dreams, the ghost dance, and the drum, the authors provide a sensitive introduction to Native American spiritual traditions and examine issues that face Native Americans today.

Cambridge anthropologist Piers Vitebsky, the first westerner to live with the Eveny of Siberia since the Russian revolution, brings readers an extraordinary case of survival in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. of photos.

Velkolepé chrámy, katedrály či mešity jsou odrazem vědomí sounáležitosti s bohy a staly se symboly duchovní kultury a lidské touhy po věčnosti.

Ein reich bebilderter Band über Geschichte und Gegenwart des Buddhismus, über die Anfänge dieser großen Weltreligion im alten Indien und ihre Fortentwicklung in China, Tibet, Japan und im westlichen Kulturkreis.§Farbige Abbildungen veranschaulichen die Lehren des Religionsstifters Siddahrta Gautama, alte Legenden und östliche Weisheit, Kunst und Architektur, Spiritualität und Vitalität des Buddhismus.

Eine reich mit Farbfotos illustrierte Einführung in das äklassischeä Schamanentum (im Gegensatz zum Schamanismus des New Age) durch einen englische Anthropologen. Der Autor umreisst kenntnisreich die Grundzüge des schamanischen Weltbildes, regionale Traditionen in der Welt, Fragen der Verleihung, Initiation und Unterweisung der Schamanenschaft, die schamanischen Riten.

The shaman occupies a key role as a healer mediating between the world of the living and the world of spirits and is a potent figure in alternative medicine. Shamanism , a richly illustrated guide, looks at both historic and present-day manifestations, from the snowscaps of Siberia to the jungles of the Amazon. The book discusses visions, initiation rites, shamanic chants, shamanism and mental health, the shamanic use of plants, and the political and social background to the shaman’s work. Also covered are the links between the shaman’s sense of unity in nature and the recent growth of ecological consciousness in Western societies. * Includes more than 250 color illustrations that present a unique pictorial record of shamanism in practice and as represented in art and artifacts * Includes a detailed region-by-region survey of shamanism with full-color maps * Explores both spiritual and psychological aspects of the subject, as well as the relevance of shamanism to contemporary Western culture