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Neuer Atheismus: New Atheism in Germany
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2012)
Matthias Knutzen (born 1646 – died after 1674) was the first author we know of who self-identified as an atheist (Schröder 2010: 8). Before this, the term had solely been used pejoratively to label others. While Knutzen ...
Yoga, change and embodied enlightenment
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2012)
Though it has been claimed that modern yoga retains little of its origins of religious austerity, I will argue that even if yoga as a physical practice has taken a strong position among the modern fitness trends, there are ...
Yoga in cyberspace? The web pages of yoga studios in Turku/Åbo
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2012)
In this article, I will offer some comments on the websites of the nine yoga schools which are active in the city of Turku/Åbo at the present moment (see sources for the links). This work is part of a larger, ongoing ...
Editorial. The branding, marketing and embodied practice of contemporary yoga
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2012)
Editorial for the special issue on The Branding, Marketing and Embodied Practice of Contemporary Yoga
Creating meaningful space: Yoga practice transforming bodily habits of 'being-in-the-world'
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2012)
Buenos Aires, the city of tango, good meat, and. . . yoga? As in many modern big cities, yoga has become extremely popular during the last decades. It is everywhere; in gyms, book stores, yoga centers, multinational ...
Book reviews
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2012)
The American Soul Rush: Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege by Marion Goldman is reviewed by Matti Rautaniemi.
India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L. Eck is reviewed by Sofia Sjö.
Branding yoga: The cases of Iyengar Yoga, Siddha Yoga and Anusara Yoga
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2012)
In October 1989, long-time yoga student, John Friend (b. 1959) travelled to India to study with yoga masters. First, he went to Pune for a one-month intensive postural yoga programme at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga ...
Religion and atheism from a gender perspective
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2012)
In August 2010 the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, summarising the results of the World Values 2005 survey, released them under the headline ‘Religion is a women’s issue’. Is atheism and secularity then, by contrast, an ...
The Russian Orthodox Church and atheism
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2012)
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the religious tide in Russia has been quick to rise. During the Soviet era, religion – particularly Orthodox Christianity and Islam – was considered to be one of the ‘enemies ...
More visible but limited in its popularity: atheism (and atheists) in Finland
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2012)
This paper argues that atheism has become more visible in Finland, but it is a relatively unpopular identity position. The relatively low popularity of atheism is partly explained by the connection between Lutheranism and ...