Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:The way of the shaman / Michael Harner.
  
•    
• Author/Creator:Harner, Michael J.
  
• Published/Created:San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1990.
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB880 .H298 1990
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mental healing.
  Shamanism.
  
• Medical Subjects: Mental Healing.
  Shamanism.
  
• Edition:10th anniversary ed., 1st Harper & Row pbk. ed.
  
• Description:xxiv, 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:This anthology contains writings vital to all the major non-Western religious traditions, arranged thematically. It includes colourful descriptions of deities, creation myths, depictions of death and the afterlife, teachings on the relationship between humanity and the sacred, religious rituals and practices, and prayers and hymns. Mircea Eliade, a recognized pioneer in the systematic study of the history of the world's religions, includes excerpts from the Quran, the Book of the Dead, the Rig Veda, the Bhagavad Gita, the Homeric Hymns, and the Popol Vuh, to name just a few. Oral accounts from Native American, African, Maori, Australian Aborigine, and other people are also included.
  
• Notes:"Third edition originally published ... in 1980"--T.p. verso.
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-165) and index.
  
• ISBN:0062503820 :
  0062503731 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
  
• Contents:Discovering the way
  The shamanic journey: Introduction
  Shamanism and states of consciousness
  Power animals
  The journey to restore power
  Power practice
  Extracting harmful intrusions
  Afterword.