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Postmodern Spirituality
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2009)
Postmodern Spirituality is an umbrella term that covers a broad number of beliefs and approaches that fall under a common, though rather fuzzy, category. Within this category, one finds a wide variety of spiritual practices ...
Religion and the Body
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
During recent years, the body has become a central focus of religious studies. The understanding of religion as a solely intellectual practice of beliefs, norms and convictions is giving way to a broader understanding of ...
Pilgrimages Today
(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 ...
Saami Religion
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1987)
The aim of the current volume is to present recent advances in the research on Saami culture and religion. Thus, these articles strive to answer the call for an international coordination of all forces in order to build a ...
Western Esotericism
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2008)
The concept of Western Esotericism includes a multiplicity of traditions and lines of thought included in Western culture, from antiquity and the renaissance up to modern times. It is often used to refer to different forms ...
Post-secular Religious Practices
(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 ...
Approaching Religion vol 1
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1999)
The current volume is based on the symposium “Methodology of the Study of Religions” arranged by the Donner Institute in 1997 as a Regional Symposium for the International Association for the Study of Religions (IAHR). The ...
Exercising Power: The Role of Religions in Concord and Conflict
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2006)
The current volume is based on papers presented at the conference by the same name, arranged by the Finnish Society for the Study of Religion (SUS) together with the European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR) ...
The Problem of Ritual
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1993)
Religious rites play a key role in most religions and spiritual traditions of the world. For researchers of religion they offer an especially prolific source of knowledge and data due to their empirical character – most ...
The Mercator-Hondius Atlas at the Donner Institute
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2016)
This introduction describes the background and reasons why the Mercator-Hondius atlas analysed in this issue became part of the library collection of the Donner Institute.