Definitions for shamanism

shamanism sha·man·ism

Spelling: [shah-muh-niz-uh m, shey-, Shamanism is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

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Definitions for shamanism

noun

  1. the animistic religion of northern Asia, embracing a belief in powerful spirits that can be influenced only by shamans.
  2. any similar religion.

Origin of shamanism

First recorded in 1770-80; shaman + -ism

Examples for shamanism

Their religion is a hotchpotch of shamanism, Mahommedanism and Christianity.

In some other Buddhist countries a kind of shamanism is practically dominant.

Cosmic origins, however, seem to be felt as allied to shamanism and doctoring.

Their religion is shamanism, a species of idolatry very prevalent amongst the inhabitants of Siberia.

Their only religion so far had been shamanism, a primitive paganism.

Among the Bouriats, shamanism was almost universal as late as one hundred and fifty years ago.

The alien rulers, in turn, had brought their own mixture of worship of Heaven and shamanism.

To describe exactly what shamanism is would be no easy task.

We call it Animism, shamanism, and in a certain specific form, Fetishism.

It would seem that the characteristic traits of shamanism are common to all the Eskimo tribes.

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