Regional Conference on Circumpolar and Northern Religion, Helsinki (Finland), May 13-19, 1990.

Notes. Bibliogr. dissém. Index.

Proto-Uralic World Picture : A Reconstruction / Myth and Reality in the Ancient Culture of the Northern Peoples / Bartha, A. -- The Uralic Background to an Udmurt Sacrifice : An attempt at reading mythological texts / Napolskikh, V. V. -- The Concept of "pyhä" (sacred) in Pre-Christian Finnish Religion / Anttonen, V. -- Sacred Language and Secret Speech / Lovasz, I. -- Hungarian Creation Legends / Nagy, I. -- "Tödis" in th Folk Beliefs of the Komi People / Ilyina, I. V. -- Peasant Ecotypes of Folk Religion / Bartha, E. -- Death and Ethnicity / Czövek, J. -- The Semantics of the Double Burial in a Karelian Funeral Rite / Utriainen, T. -- Religious Attitudes, Values and World Views : A study among contemporary young Finns / Helve, H. -- Present-day Worldview among West Greenlandic Inuit / Hansen, H.G. -- Spiritual Aspects of Tlingit Oratory / Marks-Dauenhauer, N. ; Dauenhauer, R. -- Russian Orthodoxy in Alaska / Black, L. -- Can Grave Customs be Taken over by One Ethnic Group from Another? / Zachrisson, I. -- The Purpose and Content of the Petroglyphs in the Onega Region / Emits, E. -- Supernatural Heroes in Finno-Ugric Shamanism / Corradi-Musi, C. -- Game and Games, Fortune and Dualism in Siberian Shamanism / Hamayon, R. -- Aspects of Saami (Lapp) Shamanism / Hultkrantz, A. -- Rethinking Inuit Shamanism Through the Concept of "Third Gender" / Saladin d'Anglure, B. -- Pain in Shamanic Initiation / Hoppal, M. -- Traces of Shamanism in the Udmurt Ethnic Tradition / Khrushcheva, B. -- The Cosmology of Finnish Shamanistic Folk Poetry / Polttila, B. -- Aspects of the Other World in Irish Folk Tradition / Karjala, M. -- Shetland Finn-men : Interpretations of shamanism ? / Mack, J. -- Shamanism and Paranormal Perception in the Saami Tradition / Sommarström, B. -- Psychoimmunological Effects of Shamanic Drumming / Hamer, S. D. ; Tryon, W. W.