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    • Dance as an agency of change in an age of totalitarianism 

      Hellsten, Laura (The Donner Institute, 02.03.2022)
      This article identifies two different paths where the amnesia described by Hannah- Arendt and the fragmentation identified by Willie James Jennings of our historical past has distorted how people today view dan-cing. I set ...

    • Digitizing the field of women’s Islamic education 

      Lyngsøe, Maria Lindebæk (The Donner Institute, 01.03.2022)
      This article builds on fieldwork conducted in 2019 and 2020 and examines the implications of Covid-19 lockdown for the engagement of Danish Muslim women in Islamic educational activities. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari ...

    • Editorial 

      Illman, Ruth; Laato, Anni Maria; Opas, Minna (The Donner Institute, 02.03.2022)
      The current issue of Approaching Religion is based on a summer school and conference arranged in Åbo/Turku, Finland, in June 2021, with the theme ‘Religion and Cultural Change’. The event was organized jointly by the Polin ...

    • How dare you think divergently! 

      Helenius, Visa (The Donner Institute, 02.02.2022)
      Freethinking seems to be desirable because the human being is seen as an independently thinking being. However, as is well known, freethinking should not be taken for granted: ideological indoctrination, manipulation and ...

    • ‘I try not to save my soul, but to understand it’ 

      Vrublevskaya, Polina (The Donner Institute, 01.03.2022)
      This article presents a comparative study of the experiences of young adults on a spiritual quest in cultural and religious contexts where they have not yet been properly studied, that is Lutheran Finland, Roman Catholic ...

    • Lived religion and mystical experiences 

      Johansson, Katarina (The Donner Institute, 01.03.2022)
      This article discusses and argues for a ‘new’ and inclusive umbrella concept for varieties of experiences that have been called, inter alia, religious, spiritual, existential, paranormal, extraordinary or inexplicable. The ...

    • Mapping the geography of choirs in Sweden 

      Göransson, Per (The Donner Institute, 02.03.2022)
      The geography of choirs has seldom received attention in human geography and even less so in a Swedish context. This article analyses the geography of choirs in Sweden by focusing on choir members in the Church of Sweden. ...

    • ‘No “wise” men or women but real doctors!' 

      Kouvola, Karolina (The Donner Institute, 02.03.2022)
      Magical healers and physicians were among those who provided healing in the medical market of pre-modern Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnia. Using newspaper texts published in the region about local occurrences of magical healing ...

    • Public opinion on freedom of religion (and its limitations) in penitentiary establishments in the light of international regulations 

      Sitarz, Olga; Jaworska-Wieloch, Anna; Hanc, Jakub (The Donner Institute, 01.03.2022)
      The issue of religious freedom while serving a sentence of imprisonment often occupies scientists from around the world. Basically, they agree that a prisoner, regardless of the act for which he or she has been convicted, ...

    • Supernatural punishment, spiritual violence and the Gospel of Matthew 

      Pisilä, Mikko (The Donner Institute, 02.03.2022)
      Spiritual violence is a modern concept expressing the abusive aspects of religion. This article observes the potential for spiritual violence within the rhetoric of the Gospel of Matthew, a principal text of the dominant ...

    • The change in the researcher’s position in the study of shamanism 

      Kouri, Jaana; Hytönen-Ng, Elina (The Donner Institute, 01.03.2022)
      Since the 1960s, shamanism has become one of the landmarks for a new way of life and a more respectful relationship of humans with nature in the Western world. Both researchers and practitioners regard the foundation of ...

    • The many voices in a Muslim self 

      Pauha, Teemu (The Donner Institute, 01.03.2022)
      Previous research has demonstrated that young European Muslims relate to religion and religious authority differently from their parental generation. While traditional ‘ulama (Islamic scholars) are not about to become ...

    • The puzzle and politics of historical reconstruction 

      Runesson, Anders (The Donner Institute, 02.03.2022)
      This essay focuses on the topic of the emergence of Christianity and Judaism as related but distinct religious traditions, as an example of a process of religious and cultural change, which has had an enormous impact on ...