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Beautiful destruction The aesthetic of apocalypse in Hans Dominik's early science fiction
(The Donner Institute, 2017-12-04)
Though the term ‘science fiction’ was coined somewhat later, the early twentieth century saw an enormous rise in an interest in technological tales set in the near future, mirroring a general awareness of the growing ...
Re-mapping life
(The Donner Institute, 2017-12-04)
In this paper, I discuss the significance of medical visualization in relation to recent creative practices that could dismantle, or at least redress, some of its most long-lasting tenets. In fact, driven by an almost ...
Symmetry, beauty and belief in high-energy physics
(The Donner Institute, 2017-12-04)
This paper engages with the aesthetics of knowl-edge, both in its sense as the connection between knowledge and ‘aesthetic’ judgements of beauty, or ugliness, and of the many ‘aesthetic’ – that is to say sensually perceivable ...
Editorial. Religious diversity. Looking Eastward: (Asia) beyond the West
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2017)
The subject matter of this special issue is anything but new: religious diversity has already been widely discussed in theology, philosophy, history and sociology. (Too) many times, however, diversity has been measured ...
Traditional and modern crossing process exchange in a Buddhist–Muslim society Case studied: Zangskar valley in the great Indian Himalayas
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2017)
Economic exchange in the Zangskar valley (in the high Indian Himalayas) was a tightly integrated element of the social and political network of this Buddhist–Muslim society . Accordingly people of the lower stratum could ...
Becoming Christians. Prayers and subject formation in an urban church in China
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2017)
Prayers in Christianity are often considered to be a theological or pastoral topic; while social scientific studies generally tend to reduce them, like prayers in other religious contexts, to the status of psychological ...
Religious diversity and patrimonialization. A case study of the Nianli Festival in Leizhou Peninsula, China
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2017)
With the emergence of the neologism ‘intangible cultural heritage’ in 2003 and the adoption of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Law of the People’sRepublic of China in 2011 various popular religious practices in China which ...
Diversity and elite religiosity in modern China
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2017)
This article looks at religious diversity among late imperial and modern Chinese elites; by contrast with most of the existing literature, which looks at correlations between social class and religiosity, this article adds ...
Book review. Finding beauty, goodness and truth in an ugly world
(The Donner Institute, 2017-12-04)
Review of Kimberly Vrudny's Beauty’s Vineyard: A Theological Aesthetic of Anguish and Anticipation (Collegeville, MN, Liturgical Press, 2016).
Comparing 'religious diversities' Issues, perspectives and problems
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2017)
This paper aims at reopening the debate regarding ‘religious diversity’ in religious studies. A review of (recent or ancient) literature demonstrates that we have not finished with the complexity of the issue of ‘diversity’, ...