Filmai ir vaizdo įrašai kaip religinės praktikos šaltinis

This articles aims at determining whether and how films and video recordings of a various nature are used in neoshamanism. Empirical research data prompts the conclusion that contemporary neoshamans watch, recommend to others and themselves produce various films and video recordings about shamanism, about the people who foster it and their practices. In some cases, video recordings are used as an alternative to written sources. The disregard of these video sources and an emphasis on literary sources in studies on neoshamanism does not represent the sources used by neoshamans, but rather reveals the attitudes of their researchers. Empirical research data revealed that the films and video recordings watched by neoshamans are different in nature: they included fictional movies, popular documentaries and homemade video recordings. They present shamanic traditions of many regions, interpretations of global multicultural history, other religious traditions and other relevant topics. The films and video recordings watched and created by neoshamans reveal many aspects of neoshamanic ideologies and practices: neoshamans are interested in shamanic cultures that are still alive, interact with them, and consider themselves as having the best possibility to get to know these cultures; but at the same time filmmakers who have a positive inclination to neoshamanism usually avoid superficial imitations, and identify shamanic elements in manifestations of their own Western culture

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Ideology · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Multimedia · Popular culture · Shamanism · Sociology · Video recording · Visual arts · Computer Science · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices