I respectfully disagree with your first assertion; I'm most familiar with the shamanism around Kamchatka, but it didn't seem anything like Christian ritual to me, and I think it'd be a mistake to over-emphasize whatever residual similarity Christianity may have had with shamanism. The defining features seem to be things like animal guides, nature worship, elaborate (but very different even between shamanistic regions) cosmology, and entheogen use.
This post has been edited by Vilhjalmr: Jul 7 2010, 12:17 PM
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