جزییات کتاب
On the initiative of Dr. K. Rob. V. Wikman, Professor Emeritus at the Finland-Swedish University of Åbo, (Åbo Akademi), the Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History organized in Åbo from the 6th to the 8th of September, 1962, a symposium on shamanism. The Institute is described below in an introductory article by its former head, Dr. H. Ringgren, now Professor in Old Testament Exegetics at the University of Uppsala. Some forty specially invited scholars and students from the four Nordic countries as well as Dr. H. Diószegi took part in the symposium. The local arrangements were cared for by Dr. H. Tegengren, Professor of Nordic Culture History and Folklore Research in Åbo.