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Public opinion on freedom of religion (and its limitations) in penitentiary establishments in the light of international regulations
(The Donner Institute, 2022-03-01)
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, ...
Editorial
(The Donner Institute, 2022-03-02)
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 ...
Lived religion and mystical experiences
(The Donner Institute, 2022-03-01)
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 ...
Supernatural punishment, spiritual violence and the Gospel of Matthew
(The Donner Institute, 2022-03-02)
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 puzzle and politics of historical reconstruction
(The Donner Institute, 2022-03-02)
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 ...
How dare you think divergently!
(The Donner Institute, 2022-02-02)
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’
(The Donner Institute, 2022-03-01)
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 ...
Digitizing the field of women’s Islamic education
(The Donner Institute, 2022-03-01)
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 ...
The change in the researcher’s position in the study of shamanism
(The Donner Institute, 2022-03-01)
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 ...
‘No “wise” men or women but real doctors!'
(The Donner Institute, 2022-03-02)
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 ...