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Lichtgott der Alten Letten
(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 ...
New Religions
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1975)
This volume presents research on religious movements that were characterised as “New Religions” at the time when the volume was originally published, i.e. in 1974. Among the groups presented in the volume can be found: ...
Dynamics and Institution
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 1976)
The current issue deals with a central aspect of religious social life: the formation of institutions. Religions are always embedded in a context formed by time and place, culture and history; hence, they are part of the ...
The Myth of the State
(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 ...
Religious Symbols and their Functions
(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 ...