Tradition 22 of 33
Shamanism and spirit practice
Shamanic traditions, spirit journeys, trance practices, and cross-cultural spirit mediation.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 876
- Earliest
- 1556
- to 2026
- Read free
- 4%
- 39 with public full text
- With covers
- 31%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match821
- Metadata match49
- Query match5
- Source classification (retained through merging)1
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Shamanism305
- Schamanismus144
- Chamanisme111
- Spirit possession111
- History80
- RELIGION76
- Social Sciences71
- Shamans58
- Fiction54
- sjamanisme54
- Philosophy52
- Arts and Humanities50
- Anthropology43
- Text43
- Archaeology42
- Art41
- Chamanismo41
- Non-fiction literature39
- Psychology38
- Szamanizm38
- Šamanismus31
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices30
- Sociology30
- Schamanism27
Top languages
- English453 · 52%
- German92 · 11%
- French65 · 7%
- Spanish47 · 5%
- Czech32 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- Carlos Castaneda15 in this tradition16 books
- Mircea Eliade9 in this tradition17 books
- Alberto Villoldo7 in this tradition9 books
- Jörgen I Eriksson7 books
- Nevill Drury6 in this tradition9 books
- Michael J Harner6 books
- Sandra Ingerman5 in this tradition6 books
- T'ae-han Hong5 books
- Richelle Mead4 in this tradition11 books
- Harald Meller4 in this tradition7 books
- Robert J Wallis4 in this tradition5 books
- Jeremy Narby4 books
876 books
Shamanism and the sublime
Tim Cloudsley
2000
Shamanism and traditional beliefs
Torben A Vestergaard
2001
Shamanism in North America
Norman Bancroft-Hunt
2002
Shamanism in early China
Anne Birrell
2018
Shamans
Max Carocci
2025
Shamans and traditions
Mihály Hoppál, International Society for Shamanistic Research
2007
Shamans in Asia
Clark Chilson, Peter Knecht
2003
Siberian Shamanism
Marie A Czaplicka
2014
Singing with blackbirds
Stuart A Harris-Logan
2006
Songs of Khorchin Shamans to Jayagachi, the protector of livestock and property
Elisabetta Chiodo
2009
Sorcery and shamanism
Donald Joralemon, Douglas Sharon
1993
Spirits and stones
Maria Magdalena Kośko, Andrzej Rozwadowski
2002
Spirits captured in stone
Jay H Bernstein
1997
The A to Z of shamanism
Graham Harvey, Robert James Wallis
2010
The Ethnopoetics of Shamanism
Marcel de Lima
2014
The Lord's arm stretched ovt in an answer of prayer, or, A true relation of the wonderful deliverance of James Barrow, the son of John Barrow of Olaves Southwark, who was possessed with evil spirits near two years
John Barrow
1664
The book of seiðr
Runic John
2004
The coming and going of the shaman
Jean Blodgett
1979
The elements of Shamanism
Nevill Drury
1989
The last of the Shor Shamans
Alexander Arbachakov
2008
The mind possessed
William Sargant
1973
The shaman, his symbols and his healing power
Spencer Lee Rogers
1982
The visions of Isobel Gowdie
Emma Wilby
2010
The wolves of heaven
Karl H. Wölfe des Himmels. English Schlesier
1993