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    • Religion and Food 

      Illman, Ruth (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2015)
      The relationship between food and religion is a lived activity formed by the dynamics of both tradition and adaption. Religious commitments to food are influenced by several different factors, ranging from personal ...

    • Religion and the Body 

      Ahlbäck, Tore (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      During recent years, the body has become a central focus of religious studies. The understanding of religion as a solely intellectual practice of beliefs, norms and convictions is giving way to a broader understanding of ...

    • Religious Ecstasy 

      Holm, Nils G. (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1982)
      The phenomenon of religious ecstasy was has been the focus of scholarly investigations and debate for centuries. The term implies an alteration of a person’s mental activity with attendant consequences for his interpretation ...

    • Religious Symbols and their Functions 

      Biezais, Haralds (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1979)
      Religious symbols play a significant role in the lives of individual human beings as well as in the lives of religious groups. Within the research on religion, symbols have traditionally been an object of interest for ...

    • Ritualistics 

      Ahlbäck, Tore (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2003)
      The problem of ritual has been a central topic of religious studies since the earliest days of the research tradition. Rituals offer material for interesting paths of inquiry related to both historical and contemporary ...

    • Saami Religion 

      Ahlbäck, Tore (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1987)
      The aim of the current volume is to present recent advances in the research on Saami culture and religion. Thus, these articles strive to answer the call for an international coordination of all forces in order to build a ...

    • Studies in shamanism 

      Edsman, Carl-Martin (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1967)
      This inaugural volume of the publication series Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis is based on the very first symposium arranged by the newly founded Donner Institute, arranged in 1962 on the topic of Shamanism. The ...

    • Syncretism 

      Hartman, Sven S. (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1969)
      That which happens when two religions meet is obviously different from case to case. It is possible for two "organized" religions to exist side by side for centuries without any exchange taking place. But otherwise, we are ...

    • The Myth of the State 

      Biezais, Haralds (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1972)
      The current volume examines myths of the state from ancient to modern time and from various cultural and religious contexts. It opens with a theoretical attempt to define the concept of myth followed by an analysis of the ...

    • The Problem of Ritual 

      Ahlbäck, Tore (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1993)
      Religious rites play a key role in most religions and spiritual traditions of the world. For researchers of religion they offer an especially prolific source of knowledge and data due to their empirical character – most ...

    • The religious and ethnic future of Europe 

      Illman, Ruth; Martikainen, Tuomas; Nynäs, Peter (The Donner Institute, 05.04.2018)
      The current 28th volume of Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis is based on a symposium arranged by the Donner Institute, the Migration Institute of Finland and the Åbo Akademi University in June 2017, under the title: ...

    • The Saami Shaman Drum 

      Ahlbäck, Tore (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1991)
      The current volume is based on articles presented at a symposium by the same name, arranged by the Donner Institute in 1984. The aim of the symposium was to gather a limited number of experts from different academic ...

    • Western Esotericism 

      Ahlbäck, Tore (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2008)
      The concept of Western Esotericism includes a multiplicity of traditions and lines of thought included in Western culture, from antiquity and the renaissance up to modern times. It is often used to refer to different forms ...