The Religion of the Shamans

ISBN-13: 9783506790958 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 261 str.

Piotr Sobkowiak

Opis

Do religious traditions not related to written texts have a history? The author explores this question using Buryat shamanism as a case study. Disentangling this religious tradition from its presumed ahistorical space, he places the history of Buryat shamanism in the context of sociopolitical events that unfolded in Mongolia and Transbaikalia between the late 16th and the 19th centuries.

O autorze

Piotr Sobkowiak ist Kultur- und Religionswissenschaftler und arbeitet als Assistent im Institut für Religionswissenschaft und Zentralasiatische Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Bern. Sein empirisches Gebiet umfasst die religionspolitische Geschichte Südsibiriens und der Mongolei. Seine Forschung über "schriftlose" religiöse Traditionen ist in der Philologie und poststrukturellen Theorien der Geschichte verankert.Piotr Sobkowiak works as research assistant for Religious Studies and Central Asian Cultural Studies at the Universität Bern. His research covers the history of religious policy in southern Siberia and Mongolia. His research on "bookless" religious tradition is anchored in philology and post-structural theories of history.