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Prayer practices among Palestinian Christians in Occupied Palestinian Territory
(01.12.2018)Arab Palestinian Christians face many challenges living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; restrictions of movement, a poor employment situation and rising emigration. According to previous research, religion and prayer ... -
Agency and the roles of Southern Jordanian Bedouin women on pilgrimage and visiting holy sites
(01.12.2018)In the Islamic world, numerous shrines shape and define its spiritual landscapes. While some of the shrines are tombs and memorials of major religious and historical figures, a majority of the sites are dedicated to ancestors ... -
The early history of religion (dis)proving its truth
(The Donner Institute, 01.12.2018)The first Church father writing in Arabic, Theodore Abu Qurrah, and the first Muslim author to compose a systematic refutation of Christianity, ʿAbd al-Jabbar, both apply the historical argument in order to prove or refute ... -
Singing of divine identities in a liturgical space? John Damascene's treatise on the Trisagion and his anti-heretical polemics
(The Donner Institute, 01.12.2018)John Damascene, one of the most productive Greek theologians of the Middle Byzantine era, also composed a treatise on the Trisagion hymn, or how it should be sung correctly and why; a text that has been little discussed ... -
Vicarious dissonance and the narrative of the Gospel of Matthew
(The Donner Institute, 01.12.2018)This article presents a novel social-scientific approach to the Gospel of Matthew, one of the most influential texts in the history of Christianity. This approach combines social-psychological and narrative-critical ... -
Transformations of identity and space in the Middle East and North Africa
(The Donner Institute, 01.12.2018)The current issue of Approaching Religion includes articles based on conference papers presented at the Fifth Finnish Colloquium on the Middle East and North Africa Studies, which was organised by the Finnish Institute in ... -
Book review. The artist through a glass darkly
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)Review of Anna Laestadius Larsson's Hilma. En roman om gåtan Hilma af Klint (Stockholm, Piratförlaget, 2017). -
Book review. A deconstructed guru
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)Review of Tobias Churton's Deconstructioning Gurdjieff: Biography of a Spiritual Magician (Rochester, Inner Traditions, 2017). Gurdjieff, Western Esotericism, Guru, Tobias Churton, Deconstructionism, Steven Sutcliffe -
Book review. At the borders of knowledge
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)Review of Egil Asprem's The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900–1939 (Brill 2014). -
Book review. Esotericism throughout the centuries
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)Review of Wouter J. Hanegraaff's Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture (Cambridge University, 2012). -
Esotericism in reverse
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)Western esotericism appears to be a field most precarious in terms of positioning. This article will highlight the divide between ‘critics’ and ‘religionists’ from a pre-Enlightenment position by discussing René Descartes’ ... -
A relation of Swedenborgianism and anthroposophy
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)My article discusses the influence of Emanuel- Swedenborg on a Finnish female author, Kersti Bergroth (1886–1975) through one of Bergroth’s novels Eläviä ja kuolleita (‘The Living and the Dead’, 1945). Bergroth was a ... -
Putting the spiritual into practice
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)The aim of this article is to examine how Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophical ideas were reflected and put into practice in the lives of the Finnish couple Olly (Olga) Donner (1881–1956, neé Sinebrychoff) and Uno Donner ... -
The Symbolist aesthetic and the impact of occult and esoteric ideologies on modern art
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)Within the past couple of decades, art-historical scholarship has developed a more acute awareness of the need to reassess and re-evaluate its dominant narratives. It has become apparent that the value judgements that have ... -
Vera Hjelt and the calling of theosophical universal work, 1894–1904
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)This article discusses the theosophy of Vera Hjelt (1857–1947), who was inspired by Annie Besant. Hjelt led an active life as a schoolteacher, factory owner, writer, occupational safety inspector and member of parliament. ... -
'The one and only true and salvational faith'
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)In the 1880s, the religious life in Finland was in the midst of a turbulent period which, for some, presented a threat to traditional moral values and social cohesion while for others it was the beginning of a new, more ... -
Editorial. The history of modern Western esotericism
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)The study of Western esoteric traditions and practices has been a growing research field since the 1990s. This thematic issue aims at opening this field particularly in the context of Finnish cultural history, although the ... -
Book review. Finding beauty, goodness and truth in an ugly world
(The Donner Institute, 04.12.2017)Review of Kimberly Vrudny's Beauty’s Vineyard: A Theological Aesthetic of Anguish and Anticipation (Collegeville, MN, Liturgical Press, 2016). -
Book review. Agency in image production
(The Donner Institute, 04.12.2017)Review of The Technical Image: A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery, eds. Horst Bredekamp, Vera Dünkel and Birgit Schneider (The University of Chicago Press in associ-ation with the Bard Graduate Center, New York City, 2015). -
Book review. Thermodynamics and theology
(The Donner Institute, 04.12.2017)Review of Helge S. Kragh's Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology (London and New York, Routledge, 2016) (first published in 2008 by Ashgate).
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