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Book Title: American Shamans: Journeys With Traditional Healers
Book Author: Jack Montgomery
Book Language: English
Book Year: 2008
Book Publisher: Busca Inc
Book ISBN-10: 0966619692
Book ISBN-13: 978-0966619690
From Amazon editorial reviews: In 1974, Jack Montgomery was an undergraduate student at the University of South Carolina, in search of an interesting topic for a religious studies paper. He decided to interview local practitioners of folk magic and traditional healing, representing traditions such as hoodoo and powwow. This project became a quest for knowledge, heritage, and personal meaning which has continued to the present. Today, Montgomery is an associate professor at Western Kentucky University, and American Shamans is the fruit of over thirty years of study of these home-grown spiritual traditions.
Montgomery focuses his attention on traditions native to his home state of South Carolina, from both the lowland and Piedmont regions. Unlike Louisianan voodoo, these South Carolina traditions do not cultivate an alternative practice of religious worship and ritual, but are most often practiced by people who see themselves as pious Christians, and understand their magical work as a gift from God. For example, here is an excerpt from Montgomery's interview with Sarah Ramsey, an Appalachian granny-woman
Book Author: Jack Montgomery
Book Language: English
Book Year: 2008
Book Publisher: Busca Inc
Book ISBN-10: 0966619692
Book ISBN-13: 978-0966619690
From Amazon editorial reviews: In 1974, Jack Montgomery was an undergraduate student at the University of South Carolina, in search of an interesting topic for a religious studies paper. He decided to interview local practitioners of folk magic and traditional healing, representing traditions such as hoodoo and powwow. This project became a quest for knowledge, heritage, and personal meaning which has continued to the present. Today, Montgomery is an associate professor at Western Kentucky University, and American Shamans is the fruit of over thirty years of study of these home-grown spiritual traditions.
Montgomery focuses his attention on traditions native to his home state of South Carolina, from both the lowland and Piedmont regions. Unlike Louisianan voodoo, these South Carolina traditions do not cultivate an alternative practice of religious worship and ritual, but are most often practiced by people who see themselves as pious Christians, and understand their magical work as a gift from God. For example, here is an excerpt from Montgomery's interview with Sarah Ramsey, an Appalachian granny-woman