Selaus nimekkeen mukaan kokoelmassa Donner-instituutin julkaisuja

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    • Lachesis and Nemesis. Lachesis and Nemesis: four chapters on the human condition in the writings of Carl Linnaeus 

      Wikman, Karl Robert Villehad (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1970)
      The current volume consists of essays written by Prof. K. Rob V. Wikman, dealing with the Swedish 18th century botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné). The texts focus on Linnaeus’ ideas of natural magic and ...

    • Laestadius, Laestadianism and contemporary Sami and Tornedalian literature 

      Maliniemi, Kaisa (The Donner Institute, 23.05.2020)
      Review of Anne Heith's Laestadius and Laestadianism in the Contested Field of Cultural Heritage: A Study of Contemporary Sámi and Tornedalian Texts (Umeå University, 2018).

    • Landscape, boundaries, and the limits of representation: The Stolpersteine as a commemorative space 

      Volmert, Miriam (the Donner Institute, 03.06.2017)
      The article discusses the commemorative concept of Gunter Demnig’s ongoing art project Stolpersteine, which is considered one of the world’s largest decentralised Holocaust memorials. Stolper­steine are small, cobblestone-size ...

    • Language choice, language alternation and code-switching in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas 

      Mäkilähde, Aleksi (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2016)
      The atlas of Gerardus Mercator (Gerard de Cremer), or the Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, is one of first modern atlases and one of the most famous of those compiled in the ...

    • Laws, doctrines and practice: a study of intermarriages and the ways they challenged the Jewish Community of Helsinki from 1930 to 1970 

      Czimbalmos, Mercédesz Viktória (The Donner Institute, 26.05.2019)
      The identities, customs and habits of religious congregations are tightly connected to the history of these congregations and to the specific religious tradition or denomination they consider themselves to be a part of. ...

    • Lettters to India 

      Tolley, Clive (The Donner Institute, 31.05.2021)
      I write as a non-Jew about the brief correspondence sent to my father, shortly after the Second World War, from a gifted, young Jewish violinist, and briefly outline the background story-arc of her family’s aliyah, from ...

    • Lhitage des Lumies: The Enlightenment as an unfinished and morally demanding project 

      Wolff, Charlotta (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      The French Enlightenment and the Revolution of 1789 have commonly been seen as forerunners of modern Western European democracies and democratic values such as inalienable human rights, freedom from oppression, equality, ...

    • Lichtgott der Alten Letten 

      Biezais, Haralds (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1976)
      Professor Haralds Biezais, director of the Donner Institute 1968-1978, has authored the current volume of Scripta, dealing with the indigenous religious tradition of Latvia and especially the Light God Ūsiņš. The work ...

    • ‘Lightning flashes of my burning memory’: Dissociation and trauma in a second-generation perpetrator novella by Thomas Lehr 

      Benthien, Claudia (the Donner Institute, 03.06.2017)
      Thomas Lehr’s novella Frühling (Spring, 2001) presents the last seconds of the fifty-year-old protagonist’s life – between the moment he shoots himself and the advent of his death. As an adolescent he realised he was the ...

    • Linguistic, cultural and history-related studies on Jews in Finland: a look into the scholarship in the twenty-first century 

      Ekholm, Laura; Muir, Simo; Silvennoinen, Oula (the Donner Institute, 27.06.2016)
      There has been a significant growth in volume and disciplines working on Jewish history and culture in Finland for the past fifteen years, yet no systematic overview of scholarly efforts have been available. This article ...

    • 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 ...

    • Local history of Jewish-Gentile relations 

      Laitila, Teuvo (the Donner Institute, 03.11.2018)
      Review of Omer Bartov's Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018).

    • Localising and acculturating the global: the Healing Rooms prayer service network in Finland 

      Hovi, Tuija (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2015)
      The article addresses the theme of accommodating an imported model of international religious practice into a national context. The case in question involves an intentional ’translation’ of an American Pentecostal concept ...

    • Luxury and the diversity of the Age of Enlightenment 

      Pietilä, Niklas (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      Economic thought of the eighteenth century has often been interpreted as a unitary whole, which set down the foundations of modern economics.In this essay, Pietilä discusses how the economic thinking of the era was fragmentary ...

    • 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. ...

    • Mapping the Memories of “Living on Light”. Processuality with Actor-network Theory 

      Raunola, Ilona (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 ...

    • Marcus Ehrenpreis in an international context 

      Hultman, Maja; Gargova, Fani (The Donner Institute, 20.12.2021)
      This report from the online workshop on 3 June 2021 which took place at the University of Vienna and University of Gothenburg gives an account of the talks and discussions on the role of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis in the ...

    • Memory, shame and dignity 

      Rosenberg, Göran (the Donner Institute, 03.06.2017)
      'Memory, shame and dignity' is a presentation given by the Swedish journalist and author Göran Rosenberg at the Centre for the Study of Jewish Thought in Modern Culture, Copenhagen, 5 May 2015.

    • Merchants of Helsinki: Jewish stereotypes on a Yiddish stage 

      Muir, Simo (The Donner Institute, 24.11.2019)
      This article analyses a New Year’s revue from 1929 by Helsinki-born Jac Weinstein (1883–1976) and the image of the Jewish merchant. Many stereotypes concerning ethnicity and gender are at play in the revue and the line ...

    • Minding the pandemic 

      Svensson, Jonas (The Donner Institute, 22.11.2021)
      This article analyses clusters of Muslim responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a theoretical framework provided by the cognitive science of religion. The responses include theological reflections on the origin, nature, and ...