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Shamanism v. Religion?

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SUNDANCE

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I'm curious where people draw the line between an occult practice being "shamanism" and "religion", since one is often an aspect of the other? Asking specifically because I was going to make a post about Mongolian "white", "black", and "yellow" shamanism but those things are all still very deeply connected to the "Mongolian Folk Religion" as well as aspects of Tibetan Buddhism, animism, and other religious concepts. My instinct is that it would lean towards shamanism for discussion of specific ritual practices, magical items, interactions with spirits (which could, theoretically, be separated into LHP/RHP as well) and religion for the overarching beliefs, history, etc?
 
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