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‘Mirages and visions in the air’ Tyra Kleen and the paradoxes of esoteric art
(The Donner Institute, 2021-03-20)
Around the year 1900, European discourse on art was becoming increasingly ‘esotericized’. The 1890s saw esoteric art salons create a sensation in Paris, and art critics and theorists painted a picture of the true artist ...
Gendering seekers and upstarts in early twentieth-century Finnish literature
(The Donner Institute, 2021-03-20)
The search for truth and spirituality, intertwined with the search for one’s self, has been a perennial theme in arts and literature. In some works of Finnish literature at the turn of the twentieth century, the figure of ...
Care, longing, and control: Representing corporeal Laestadianism in popular culture
(The Donner Institute, 2020-05-23)
This article analyses representations of Conservative Laestadianism in contemporary Finnish and Finnish-American popular culture. Drawing from political studies, religious studies and cultural studies, the article sheds ...
Gendered and Embodied Un/learning among Women Disengaging from Faith in the UK and Finland
(The Donner Institute, 2024-05-03)
Women often embody the central values and practices of their religious tradition. When they leave their community, women find a part of the “religious tapestry” remaining with them long after their disengagement. In this ...