Modern contemporary shamanism is a set of beliefs and practices collected by Michael harner that is centred on the use of ritual drumming and dance, and harners interpretations of indigenous religions. Harner has faced criticism for taking pieces of diverse religions out of there cultural contexts and synthesising a set of universal shamanic traditions. Some neoshamans focus on the ritual use of entheogen's and embrace the philosophies of magic.
European based neoshammanic traditions are focused upon the researched or imagined traditions of ancient europe, where many mystical practices and belief systems that were suppressed by christian ancestral traditions.
Some anthropologists and practitioners have discussed the impact of such neoshamanism as "giving extra pay" (Harvey, 1997 and elsewhere) to indigenous American traditions, particularly as many pagan or heathen shamanic practitioners do not call themselves shamans, but instead use specific names derived from the European traditions
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