Shamanism

NPR

Published December 11, 2002 at 7:00 PM HST

Commentator Shai Oster travels to Western Mongolia on a spiritual quest. He consults a shaman, a practitioner of one of the world's oldest religions. Shamanism is making a comeback after decades of Communist suppression.

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