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The Innovation of a Master Wonder-worker in the Character of Simon Peter
(The Donner Institute, 28.02.2024)Simon Peter undergoes a considerable development from his first introduction in the Gospel of Mark to later narratives, where he gains remarkable miraculous abilities. In Mark, he witnesses Jesus performing numerous miracles ... -
Suppressed, Adopted and Invented Memories. The Death of Jesus in the Gospel of John
(The Donner Institute, 28.02.2024)The Gospel of John reflects several layers of social memory and theological creativity concerning Jesus’s death. In the early material, there seems to be a suppressed awareness of Jesus’s fate and an unwillingness to unfold ... -
The Retrieved Altar Cross of the Luther Church Helsinki. Sacred Waste Transformed into a Heritagization Frame
(The Donner Institute, 28.02.2024)The topic of this article is religious materiality in a Finnish, Lutheran setting. Reflecting on the altar cross of the Luther Church Helsinki – and more specifically the elevated role the cross played in the re-opening ... -
Contexts of Altar Flowers. A Contribution to a Theology in Construction.
(28.02.2024)Flowers are placed on the altar in many Christian churches. However, while many other items on the altar have given rise to a vast body of theological research, this is not the case with altar flowers. In this article the ... -
“My soul must live with the colour”. The Transformative Potential of Colours Described by Rudolf Steiner
(The Donner Institute, 28.02.2024)The article focuses on the transformative potential of colours described by Rudolf Steiner. Steiner’s colour definitions are approached through the aesthetics of religion, investigating religion as a sensory and mediated ... -
Mapping the Memories of “Living on Light”. Processuality with Actor-network Theory
(The Donner Institute, 28.02.2024)In this article a case study of the phenomenon of “living on light” is presented. The interlocutor “Eva” shares her memories from the period when she did not eat material food. Actor-network theory (ANT) is adopted to ... -
The Kalevala and Finland's Atlantean Past. Willie Angervo's Esoteric History
(The Donner Institute, 28.02.2024)Nationalistic interpretations of history were prevalent in Finland until the Second World War. A unifying past for Finns was sought in antiquity, often influenced by interpretations of the Kalevala, regarded as the Finnish ... -
Religion - Memory and Innovation
(The Donner Institute, 28.02.2024)The current issue of Approaching Religion is based on a summer school and conference arranged in Åbo/Turku, Finland, in June 2023, on the theme of “Religion: Memory and Innovation”. The event was organized jointly by the ... -
En biografi og en slægtshistorie om jødisk liv i Danmark
(The Donner Institute, 12.12.2023)Review of Thomas Harder & Lene Ewald Hesels''s En sten for Eva (København: Gads Forlag, 2022). 380 pp. & Hanne Foighels Sten på sten. Mine 400 år gamle danskjødiske rødder (København: Dansk Jødisk Museum, 2022). 496 pp. -
Om vikten att få berätta och minnen av Ravensbrück, Vita bussarna och livet efteråt
(The Donner Institute, 12.12.2023)Recension av Lena Millingers ...För det fanns inga barn i Ravensbrück: En berättelse om Gladys och Ivan Neuman (Hestra: Isaberg förlag, 2021). 104 s. -
Ett färgsprakande bidrag till judiskt liv i Norge
(The Donner Institute, 12.12.2023)Recension av Jødisk: Identitet, praksis og minnekultur redigerad av Cora Alexa Døving (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2022). 344 s. -
Svante Hansson in memoriam
(The Donner Institute, 12.12.2023)Nekrolog över Svante Hansson (1938-2023). -
The last Jews in Hämeenlinna, 1889–1918. A community fades away
(The Donner Institute, 12.12.2023)Around a hundred years ago there was a tiny Jewish community in Hämeenlinna, a small provincial capital in Finland. The dissolution of the Hämeenlinna Jewish community has become shrouded in mystery. Some amateur historians ... -
From a young Jewish model to a Salvation Army Officer. Fête juive and the case of Chava Slavatitsky
(The Donner Institute, 12.12.2023)The captivating painting of Helene Schjerfbeck, Fête juive / Lehtimajanjuhla (1883), is considered to this day an exceptional piece of art with significant cultural value. It already carries great value, aside from its ... -
The Catholic Church, Jews, the Shoah and the State of Israel. Interpretations and responses
(The Donner Institute, 12.12.2023)Judaism and Christianity are religions whose theological epistemology is based on revelation. The primary source of revelation is Holy Scripture. However, history has also been recognised as a source of revelation, ... -
Bodies speak louder than words. Norwegian Jewish parents reflecting on brit milah
(The Donner Institute, 12.12.2023)This article addresses the question: how do Norwegian Jewish parents reflect on brit milah (circumcision) in a context where this practice is frequently criticised? The data are derived from twenty-five in-depth interviews. ... -
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Ett judiskt kristet arv
(The Donner Institute, 19.06.2023)Recension av Caterina Stenius, ”Sanningen är alltid större. En essä på sju famnars djup” (Vasa: Förlaget Scriptum, 2022). -
En resa genom judiska bibliografier och bibliotek
(The Donner Institute, 19.06.2023)Bokrecension av Joacim Hanssons De ordnade böckernas folk: om klassifikation i judiska bibliografier och bibliotek (Stockholm: Hilleförlaget, 2022) -
The faith and actions of Greta Andrén, missionary to the Jews of Vienna, 1938–41
(The Donner Institute, 19.06.2023)In this microhistorical study of the Swedish Mission to the Jews (Svenska Israelsmissionen) in Vienna, I explore the everyday life and work of the deaconess Greta Andrén (1909–71) during the time of the Nazi occupation of ...