Spiritualist mediums and other traditional shamans: towards an apprenticeship model of shamanic practice
Spiritualism has its origins in 1840s America, and continues to occupy a niche in the Anglo-American cultural world in which the craft of mediumship is taught and practised. Spiritualist mediums seek to demonstrate personal survival beyond death and thus belong to a movement that posits the existenc...
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| Format: | Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Edinburgh
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5527 |