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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797128403321

Titolo

Handbook of Nordic new religions / / edited by James R. Lewis, Inga Bardsen T0llefsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-29246-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (532 p.)

Collana

Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, , 1874-6691 ; ; Volume 11

Disciplina

200.948

Soggetti

Cults - Scandinavia

Scandinavia Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / James R. Lewis and Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen -- Introduction / James R. Lewis and Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen -- The Study of New Religions in Denmark: A Brief and Subjective Research History 1985–2014 / Mikael Rothstein -- Old New Religions in Scandinavia / Olav Hammer -- misa and Natha: The Peculiar Story of a Romanian Tantric Yoga School / Sara Møldrup Thejls -- The Baha’is of the North / Margit Warburg -- Danish Dianetics: Scholarship on the Church of Scientology in Scandinavia / Kjersti Hellesøy and James R. Lewis -- The Study of New Religious Movements in Finland: An Overview of Previous Research / Tommy Ramstedt -- From Western Esotericism to New Spirituality: The Diversity of New Age in Finland / Jussie Sohlberg and Kimmo Ketola -- Diversification, Mainstreaming, Commercialization and Domestication – New Religious Movements and Trends in Finland / Måns Broo , Marcus Moberg , Terhi Utriainen and Tommy Ramstedt -- Combining Christianity and New Age Spirituality: Angel Religion in Finland / Terhi Utriainen -- A Study of New Religiosity in Norway / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus and Lisbeth Mikaelsson -- Royal Angels in the News: The Case of Märtha Louise, Astarte Education and the Norwegian News Press / Siv Ellen Kraft -- The Spiritist Revival: the Raising Voice of Popular Religion / Anne Kalvig -- Studying Up, Down, Sideways and Through: Re-presenting Seeking in a Norwegian Setting / Ann Kristin



Eide -- The Art of Living Foundation in Norway: Indigenization and Continuity / Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen -- Acem: Disenchanted Meditation / Margrethe Løøv -- Norwegian ‘Conspirituality’: A Brief Sketch / Asbjørn Dyrendal -- Approval of the Shamanistic Association: A Local Norwegian Construct with Trans-Local Dynamics / Trude Fonneland -- New Religious Movements and Alternative Spirituality as an Academic Research Field in Sweden – Some Reflections / Liselotte Frisk -- The New Religious Movements – What Happened to Them? A Study of the Church of Scientology, The Children of God, iskcon, The Unification Church and The Rajneesh Movement and Their Development over Time / Liselotte Frisk -- The Spiritual Revolution, the Swedish Way / Peter Åkerbäck -- The Ahmadiyya Mission to the Nordic Countries / Brian Arly Jacobsen , Göran Larsson and Simon Sorgenfrei -- Heralds of the Cosmic Brotherhood: The Story of the Swedish Contactee Sten Lindgren / Erik A. W. Östling -- Are the Space Brothers Socialists? Swedish Indigenization of the ufo Mythical Complex / Jessica Moberg -- Lithuanian Occulture and the Pyramid of Merkinė: Innovation or Continuity? / Milda Ališauskienė and Massimo Introvigne -- The “Back to Nature” Worldview in Nature-based Spirituality Movements: The Case of the Anastasians / Rasa Pranskevičiūtė -- Activities of Hindu-Related Movements and Western Esoteric Groups in Latvia / Anita Stasulane -- New Religious Movements and New Age in Estonia / Ringo Ringvee -- Fire and Ice in Midvestjard: American Religion and Norse Identity in Minnesota’s Heathen Community / Murphy Pizza -- Index / James R. Lewis and Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen.

Sommario/riassunto

When James R. Lewis, one of the editors of the current collection, first moved to Norway in late 2009, he was unprepared to discover that so many researchers in Nordic countries were producing innovative scholarship on new religions and on the new age subculture. In fact, over the past dozen years or so, an increasingly disproportionate percentage of new religions scholars have arisen in Nordic countries and teach at universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic countries. Nordic New Religions, co-edited with Inga B. Tøllefsen, surveys this rich field of study in this area of the world, focusing on the scholarship being produced by scholars in this region of northern Europe.