The Role of Shamanism in the History of Religion

I think one story that people often tell about the history of religion is something like in the beginning, there was shamanism. And then shamanism was replaced by or evolved into these doctrinal world religions. But another way that one can think about it and actually a way that I think is more accurate is to think that shamanism and these doctrinal religions are constantly warring against each other. It's because first shamanism is very often a bottom up phenomenon. It is, you know, people are looking for control. They want to heal. The night before big soccer games, they go to shamans,. You know, people want control over uncertainty. Shamans are charismatic upstarts

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