Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of Nordic new religions / edited by James R. Lewis, Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lewis, James R.
• Tøllefsen, Inga Bårdsen

Description

xvii, 512 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

Brill handbooks on contemporary religion, 1874-6691 ; volume 11

Uniform Title

Brill handbooks on contemporary religion ; v. 11.

Subjects

• Cults
• Cults > Scandinavia
• Religion
• Scandinavia > Religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The study of new religions in Denmark : a brief and subjective research history 1985-2014 / Mikael Rothstein -- Old new religions in Scandinavia / Olav Hammer -- MISA and Natha : the peculiar story of a Romanian Tantric yoga school / Sara Møldrup Thejls -- The Baha'is of the North / Margit Warburg -- Danish dianetics : scholarship on the Church of Scientology in Scandinavia / Kjersti Hellesøy and James R. Lewis -- The study of new religious meovements in Finland : an overview of previous research / Tommy Ramstedt -- From Western esotericism to new spirituality : the diversity of New Age in Finland / Jussie Sohlberg and Kimmo Ketola -- Diversification, mainstreaming, commercialization and domestication -- new religious movements and trends in Finland / Måns Broo, Marcus Moberg, Terhi Utriainen and Tommy Ramstedt -- Combining Christianity and New Age spirituality : angel religion in Finland / Terhi Utriainen -- A study of new religiosity in Norway / Ingvild Sœlid Gilhus and Lisbeth Mikaelsson -- Royal angels in the news : the case of Märtha Louise, Astarte education and the Norwegian News Press / Siv Ellen Kraft -- The spiritist revival : the raising voice of popular religion / Anne Kalvig -- Studying up, down, sideways and through : re-presenting seeking in a Norwegian setting / Ann Kristin Eide -- The art of living foundation in Norway : indigenization and continuity / Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen -- Acem : disenchanted meditation / Margrethe Løøv -- Norwegian 'conspirituality' : a brief sketch / Asbjørn Dyrendal -- Approval of the Shamanistic Association : a local Norwegian construct with trans-local dynamics / Trude Fonneland -- New religious movements and alternatibve spirituality as an academic research field in Sweden -- some reflections / Liselotte Frisk -- The new religious movements -- what happened to them? A study of the Church of Scientology, The Children of God, ISKCON, The Unification Church and The Rajneesh Movement and their development over time / Liselotte Frisk -- The spiritual revolution, the Swedish way / Peter Åkerbäck -- The Ahmadiyya mission to the Nordic countries / Brian Arly Jacobsen, Göran Larsson and Simon Sorgenfrei -- Heralds of the Cosmic Brotherhood : the story of the Swedish contactee Sten Lindgren / Erik A.W. Östling -- Are the Space Brothers Socialists? Swedish indigenization of the UFO mythical complex / Jessica Moberg -- Lithuanian occulture and the pyramid of Merkinė : innovation or continuity? / Milda Ališauskienė and Massimo Introvigne -- The 'back to nature' worldview in nature-based spirituality movements : the case of the Anastasians / Rasa Pranskevičiūtė -- Activities of Hindu-related movements and western esoteric groups in Latvia / Anita Stasulane -- New religious meovements and New Age in Estonia / Ringo Ringvee -- Fire and ice in Midvestjard : American religion and Norse identity in Minnesota's heathen community / Murphy Pizza.

Call Number

JFE 16-4724

ISBN

• 9789004292444
• 9004292446
• 9789004292468 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015009906

OCLC

904036737

Title

Handbook of Nordic new religions / edited by James R. Lewis, Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Brill handbooks on contemporary religion, 1874-6691 ; volume 11

Brill handbooks on contemporary religion ; v. 11.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lewis, James R., editor.

Tøllefsen, Inga Bårdsen, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-4724