Selaus nimekkeen mukaan kokoelmassa Donner-instituutin julkaisuja

    • Old Norse and Finnish Religions and Cultic Place-Names 

      Ahlbäck, Tore (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1990)
      In September 1986 the Nordic Cooperation Committee for Humanistic Research presented a report on the research into Norse religion within the Nordic region. The report pointed out the need for intensified research efforts ...
    • Om vikten att få berätta och minnen av Ravensbrück, Vita bussarna och livet efteråt 

      Sjö, Sofia (The Donner Institute, 12.12.2023)
      Recension av Lena Millingers ...För det fanns inga barn i Ravensbrück: En berättelse om Gladys och Ivan Neuman (Hestra: Isaberg förlag, 2021). 104 s.
    • On Collecting and Publishing the Albanian Oral Epic 

      Dushi, Arbnora (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
      The aim of this paper is to examine how the Albanian epic known as the ‘Cycle of the Frontier Warriors’ has been presented in Albanian folklore collections. I will examine seven written versions of the song ‘The Wedding ...
    • ‘One of the most important questions that human beings have to understand’ 

      Olsson, Susanne; Svensson, Jonas (The Donner Institute, 14.06.2022)
      In the present article, the authors argue that the study of Salafism as a contemporary Islamic new religious movement could benefit from an analytical perspective separating fundamentalism into the modes of inferentialism ...
    • ‘Only the murder accusations are missing’ 

      Carlesson Magalhães, Jens (The Donner Institute, 19.06.2023)
      In 1848, the Götheborgs Dagblad newspaper was revived after a ten-year gap, and launched the anonymous submission column entitled ‘Anonyma Lådan’ (the Anonymous Box). In January and February 1849, many antisemitic letters ...
    • Opening minds for the wisdom of art: Encounters between art and esotericism 

      Leskelä-Kärki, Maarit (The Donner Institute, 20.03.2021)
      A reflection on the symposium ‘Clear-sighted Art – Open Mind? Encounters between Art and Esotericism’ arranged at the Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki, 25th August 2020.
    • Orthodox actors and equal opportunities policies in the Republic of Moldova in the context of the transformation of post-Soviet societies 

      Mitrofanova, Anastasia V. (The Donner Institute, 23.10.2019)
      This article examines how the key Orthodox actors in Moldova have reacted to challenging equal opportunities legislation. The author suggests, on the basis of an economic approach to religion, that under the conditions of ...
    • Orthodox Christianity and gender through a religion-as-lived perspective 

      Illman, Ruth (the Donner Institute, 30.10.2020)
      Book review of Kupari, Helena, and Elina Vuola (eds.), 2020. Orthodox Christianity and Gender. Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice. Routledge Studies in Religion (London & New York: Routledge).
    • Out of many modes and motivations 

      Kyyrö, Jere; Mantsinen, Teemu T. (The Donner Institute, 07.11.2022)
      This article explores a sequence of events, a combination of Orthodox Christian village and chapel festivals, associated processions and a cross-border procession, through the theoretical concept of ritualisation. The ...
    • Pandemic funerals in Norway. Hartmut Rosa’s resonance as a sensitizing concept 

      Schuerhoff, Carsten (The Donner Institute, 08.03.2023)
      During the Covid-19 pandemic, funerals have been conducted consistently in Norway, but, of course, the ceremonies were subject to rules and regulations, while digitization was on the increase. Against the background of ...
    • Participation, metaphysics, and enlightenment: reflections on Ken Wilber’s recent work 

      Ferrer, Jorge (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2015)
      This article critically examines Ken Wilber’s (2006) recent work from a participatory perspective of human spirituality. After a brief introduction to the participatory approach, I limit my discussion to the following four ...
    • Pentecostal currents and individual mobility: visiting church services in Stockholm County 

      Moberg, Jessica (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2015)
      The classification of Pentecostal currents and organizations has been widely debated within Pentecostal studies. In contemporary Sweden, the disintegration of historically important boundaries (denominational, practical ...
    • Pentecostalism in Finland: the precarious beginning 

      Holm, Nils G. (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2015)
      The article presents the arrival of the Pentecostal movement into Finland. It is argued that a totally incorrect picture of the early years of Pentecostalism in Finland is conveyed if it is limited to the activities which ...
    • Philo of Stockholm. The ecumenical heresies of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis 

      Rosenberg, Göran (The Donner Institute, 24.11.2019)
      This paper was presented at the conference ‘The Marrano Phenomenon: Jewish Hidden Tradition and Modernity’, Warsaw, 16–19 September 2019. It considers the case of Marcus Ehrenpreis, chief rabbi of Stockholm (1914–48). ...
    • Philosophies of interreligious dialogue: Practice in search of theory 

      Leirvik, Oddbjørn (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      In this article, I discuss how insights from Martin Buber’s and Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophies of dialogue have enlightened my own experience of inter-faith dialogue in Norway. Central perspectives here are Buber’s notion ...
    • Picturing vision: The interconnectedness of mental and visual images 

      Schürmann, Eva (the Donner Institute, 29.05.2018)
      Kant taught us to think of the faculty of imagination as an ingredient of perception. Vision, thus, is not only opened to the present but also to the absent, for instance through expectations or memories. Our ways of seeing ...
    • Pilgrimages Today 

      Ahlbäck, Tore (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2010)
      Pilgrimages can tentatively be described as journeys undertaken by individuals or groups to a place, which for the persons involved in the journey is of great importance; either for religious or spiritual reasons or for ...
    • Pitfalls of consensus-orientated dialogue: the German Islam Conference (Deutsche Islam Konferenz) 

      Amir-Moazami, Schirin (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      This article discusses one deliberative approach to dialogue as conceptualized by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas and brings this into a conversation with the current dialogue practice of the Deutsche Islam Konferenz (DIK) ...
    • Political Parties and the Production of Islam-Secularism Cleavage in Turkey 

      Alaranta, Toni Aleksi (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)
      This study demonstrates how profoundly Turkey's main social clevage –Islam versus Secularism – is produced and reproduced by political parties in their attempts to form coherent sociopolitical bloc as a basis of mass ...
    • Post-secular Religious Practices 

      Ahlbäck, Tore (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2012)
      The theme of the current volume of Scripta is the emerging field of research connected to Post-secular religious practices. Special attention is given to the trend of combining a renewed openness to questions of the spirit ...