Handbook of Nordic new religions / edited by James R. Lewis, Inga Bardsen T0llefsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis, James R., editor.

Series:

Brill handbooks on contemporary religion ; Volume 11.

Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, 1874-6691 ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cults--Scandinavia.

Cults.

Scandinavia--Religion.

Scandinavia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (532 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When James R. Lewis, one of the editors of the current collection, first moved to Norway in late 2009, he was unprepared to discover that so many researchers in Nordic countries were producing innovative scholarship on new religions and on the new age subculture. In fact, over the past dozen years or so, an increasingly disproportionate percentage of new religions scholars have arisen in Nordic countries and teach at universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic countries. Nordic New Religions, co-edited with Inga B. Tøllefsen, surveys this rich field of study in this area of the world, focusing on the scholarship being produced by scholars in this region of northern Europe.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / James R. Lewis and Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen

Introduction / James R. Lewis and Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen

The Study of New Religions in Denmark: A Brief and Subjective Research History 1985–2014 / Mikael Rothstein

Old New Religions in Scandinavia / Olav Hammer

misa and Natha: The Peculiar Story of a Romanian Tantric Yoga School / Sara Møldrup Thejls

The Baha’is of the North / Margit Warburg

Danish Dianetics: Scholarship on the Church of Scientology in Scandinavia / Kjersti Hellesøy and James R. Lewis

The Study of New Religious Movements in Finland: An Overview of Previous Research / Tommy Ramstedt

From Western Esotericism to New Spirituality: The Diversity of New Age in Finland / Jussie Sohlberg and Kimmo Ketola

Diversification, Mainstreaming, Commercialization and Domestication – New Religious Movements and Trends in Finland / Måns Broo , Marcus Moberg , Terhi Utriainen and Tommy Ramstedt

Combining Christianity and New Age Spirituality: Angel Religion in Finland / Terhi Utriainen

A Study of New Religiosity in Norway / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus and Lisbeth Mikaelsson

Royal Angels in the News: The Case of Märtha Louise, Astarte Education and the Norwegian News Press / Siv Ellen Kraft

The Spiritist Revival: the Raising Voice of Popular Religion / Anne Kalvig

Studying Up, Down, Sideways and Through: Re-presenting Seeking in a Norwegian Setting / Ann Kristin Eide

The Art of Living Foundation in Norway: Indigenization and Continuity / Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen

Acem: Disenchanted Meditation / Margrethe Løøv

Norwegian ‘Conspirituality’: A Brief Sketch / Asbjørn Dyrendal

Approval of the Shamanistic Association: A Local Norwegian Construct with Trans-Local Dynamics / Trude Fonneland

New Religious Movements and Alternative Spirituality as an Academic Research Field in Sweden – Some Reflections / Liselotte Frisk

The New Religious Movements – What Happened to Them? A Study of the Church of Scientology, The Children of God, iskcon, The Unification Church and The Rajneesh Movement and Their Development over Time / Liselotte Frisk

The Spiritual Revolution, the Swedish Way / Peter Åkerbäck

The Ahmadiyya Mission to the Nordic Countries / Brian Arly Jacobsen , Göran Larsson and Simon Sorgenfrei

Heralds of the Cosmic Brotherhood: The Story of the Swedish Contactee Sten Lindgren / Erik A. W. Östling

Are the Space Brothers Socialists? Swedish Indigenization of the ufo Mythical Complex / Jessica Moberg

Lithuanian Occulture and the Pyramid of Merkinė: Innovation or Continuity? / Milda Ališauskienė and Massimo Introvigne

The “Back to Nature” Worldview in Nature-based Spirituality Movements: The Case of the Anastasians / Rasa Pranskevičiūtė

Activities of Hindu-Related Movements and Western Esoteric Groups in Latvia / Anita Stasulane

New Religious Movements and New Age in Estonia / Ringo Ringvee

Fire and Ice in Midvestjard: American Religion and Norse Identity in Minnesota’s Heathen Community / Murphy Pizza

Index / James R. Lewis and Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-29246-2

OCLC:

911001261

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004292468 DOI