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This article discusses shamanic worldviews theoretically and empirically based on the author's long-term comparative studies in rural regions of Odisha, India. It deals with local eco-cosmological worldviews expressed in trance traditions, interpreted by the author as expressions of contemporary shamanic worldviews and an indication of ways of transmission of indigenous knowledge. In this sense the comparative examples of shamanic traditions of nag bacca (snake children) and alekh gurumai (ritual specialists) in Odisha are examples of transformative healing through trance rituals based both on concepts of holy craziness and sacred play (baaya/kheelo) and on spirit possession rituals (boil), widely spread in cultures of orality.
In shamanic worldviews, therianthropic transformations of animal human and ecological encounters are transmitted in a rich culture of orality expressed in songs, performances, and trance dances. In this indigenous knowledge transmission, visions and dreams are the most important expressions of shamanic imaginaries, realities, epistemologies, and ontologies, revealing imagined, dreamt, and lived experiences of local shamanic societies. In this way, the visual mental imagery experiences construe the inner and outer knowledge of shamanic life worlds and worldviews.

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Der Beitrag diskutiert die vielfältigen Askese-Traditionen und Vorstellungen einer neuen religiösen Gruppe im Osten Indiens, deren Zentren in asketischen Orden und der Laienbevölkerung in Stammesgebieten Odishas liegen.

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Der Artikel thematisiert den Körper als Medium des spirituellen Wissens und der Erkenntnisvermittlung von Mahima Dharma – einer neueren asketischen Bewegung des östlichen Indiens. Anhand indigener Konzepte von Wissen und Erleuchtung (gyan) wird spirituelle Erkenntnis im Sinne eines esoterischen asketischen Wissens analysiert. Esoterisches (exklusives) asketisches Wissen in der neueren asketischen Tradition Mahima Dharma entsteht nur mittels des spezialisierten Körperwissens eines Asketen oder Laien. Die richtigen Werte des Lebens für Asketen und Laien werden nur mittels einer disziplinierten Körperpraxis verkörpert. Der Artikel basiert auf langwierigen Feldforschungen unter Asketen der Mahima Dharma-Religion des östlichen Indiens.

Introduction. Music as culture, medium and religion -- The region. The Bora Sambar region ; Oral history ; The sacred landscape of the Bora Sambar region and the memory of resistance -- Religion, rituals, music. A boil ritual in Sargival Village ; Thea-phony : music and the goddess ; The village orchestra : Ganda Baja -- Dance and ritual as idioms of affinity and alliance. Dalkhai dance ; Tin sali yatra : a ritual of divine marriage ; Binjhal Biha -- Music, movement, death and ailment. The "guilt and expiation priest-musicians" ; The concept of sur : sound and liberation ; Itinerary non-Brahmin priest-musicians -- Music and the market. Baja bazaar : sacred music for sale ; The market of gods -- Music as religious instruction and cultural transfer. Sanchar ; Krishna guru parties ; Pala -- Possession and performance in western Odisha. Nag bacca : the snake children and their rituals ; Sobri Sobren lila ; Dand nacho -- From ritual to political music. Sambalpuri folklore ; Music, politics and ethnicity ; Music, modernisation and dalit power

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