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The Shamanic Themes in Armenian Folktales (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The Shamanic Themes in Armenian Folktales (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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"In Marxist anthropological theory, shamanism represented one of
the early forms of religion that later gave rise to more
sophisticated beliefs in the course of human advancement ... The
premise of Marxism was that eventually, at the highest levels of
civilization, the sacred and religion would eventually die out"
(Znamenski, 2007, p.322). Though history has of course since
disproved this, the theory clearly had a great bearing on what was
written in the former Soviet Union about shamanism, and also on
people's attitudes in the former Soviet Republics towards such
practices. On the other hand, it has been suggested that "all
intellectuals driven by nationalist sentiments directly or
indirectly are always preoccupied with searching for the most
ancient roots of their budding nations in order to ground their
compatriots in particular soil and to make them more indigenous"
(Znamenski, 2007, p.28). Although this might apply to searching for
the roots of Christianity in Armenia, when it comes to searching
for the roots of pagan practices, interest on the part of the
people of Armenia is generally speaking not so forthcoming. This
impasse, coupled with the effects of the repressions against
religions, including shamanism, unleashed by the Soviet government
between the 1930s and 1950s, along with the recent surge of
interest in the Armenian Orthodox church, a backlash to the seventy
years of officially sanctioned atheism, makes research into the
subject no easy business. However, hopefully this study will at
least in some small way help to set the process in motion.
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