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Chabad on Ice
(The Donner Institute, 2022-06-14)
The article examines the Finnish branch of Chabad Lubavitch as a fundamentalist and charismatic movement that differs from other branches of ultra-Orthodox Judaism in its approaches to outreach to non-observant Jews. Whilst ...
Soft charisma as an impediment to fundamentalist discourse
(The Donner Institute, 2022-06-14)
The Anthroposophical Society in Sweden is, in the view of many of its members, going through tough times. Times of crisis and the search for a collective identity often inspire the formation of ideological rifts within a ...
Salafi Sufism?
(The Donner Institute, 2022-06-14)
The aim of this article is to analyse a local expression of the transnational Ahbash Sufi movement in light of recent scholarship on the relationship between Salafism and Sufism as well as Islamic neo-traditionalism. Some ...
ISKCON and intelligent design
(The Donner Institute, 2022-06-14)
Bhaktivedanta Swami (1896–1977), the founder of ISKCON, had a complex relationship with science and modernity, and many of his followers have consequently allied themselves with various kinds of critiques of the modern ...
Editorial. Nordic fundamentalism
(The Donner Institute, 2022-06-14)
‘One of the most important questions that human beings have to understand’
(The Donner Institute, 2022-06-14)
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 ...
From ignis mundi to the world’s first oil-tanker. The legacy of the Nobels’ oil empire in Baku
(The Donner Institute, 2023-09-01)
This article analyses mechanisms of heritagisation that transformed oil from a natural to a cultural resource through the case study of the Branobel corporation, which operated in Azerbaijan from the late nineteenth century, ...
Wind of change. Exploring the value creation of diaconia
(The Donner Institute, 2023-09-01)
The value of diaconia is difficult to measure, its immaterial assets not easily grasped. In this article, I contribute to the area in analysing the perspective of 22 deacons on what is most important in their job and what ...
When Magnus Johanson turned fifty. Materiality, place-making and early-twentieth-century Swedish Baptist birthday parties
(The Donner Institute, 2023-09-01)
This article examines birthday party decorations as a way of understanding the materiality and religious place-making of an expanding Baptist congregation in central Sweden in the early twentieth century. The fiftieth ...
Architectural visions Reima Pietilä’s nature architecture and his ‘shamanistic’ design method
(The Donner Institute, 2021-03-20)
In this article I examine the architecture and architectural thinking of Finnish Academician Reima Pietilä (1923–93) in relation to his design methodology. Pietilä was an architect with an original, creative, artistic ...