Asatru
Title | Asatru PDF eBook |
Author | Steven McNallen |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2015-05-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780972029254 |
Asatru
Title | Asatru PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Lale |
Publisher | |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1578637023 |
"Asatru is a modern pagan tradition whose roots lie in the ancient myths, folklore, sagas, and historical artifacts of those who lived in pre-Christian times in what is now Iceland, Scandinavia, Scandinavian-influenced Scotland, Germany, and other parts of Northern Europe. This book provides an accessible and easy-to-read introduction to this heathen religion, one of the fastest growing religions in United States and Europe"--
Norse Revival
Title | Norse Revival PDF eBook |
Author | Stefanie von Schnurbein |
Publisher | Studies in Critical Research on Religion |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Neopaganism |
ISBN | 9781608467372 |
Norse Revival offers a thorough investigation of Germanic Neopaganism (Asatru) through an international and comprehensive historical perspective. It traces Germanic Neopaganism's genesis in German ultra-nationalist and occultist movements around 1900. Based on ethnographic research of contemporary groups in Germany, Scandinavia and North America, the book examines this alternative Neopagan religion's transformations towards respectability and mainstream thought after the 1970s. It asks which regressive and progressive elements of a National Romantic discourse on Norse myth have shaped Germanic Neopaganism. It demonstrates how these ambiguous ideas about Nordic myth permeate general discourses on race, religion, gender, sexuality and aesthetics. Ultimately, Norse Revival raises the question of whether Norse mythology can be freed from its reactionary ideological baggage.
Modern Paganism in World Cultures
Title | Modern Paganism in World Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Strmiska |
Publisher | ABC-CLIO |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005-12-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1851096086 |
A study of Neopagan religious movements in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe where people increasingly turn to ancestral religions, not as amusement or matters of passing interest, but in an effort to practice those religions as they were before the advent of Christianity.
Radical Transformations in Minority Religions
Title | Radical Transformations in Minority Religions PDF eBook |
Author | Beth Singler |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2021-11-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1351851225 |
All religions undergo continuous change, but minority religions tend to be less anchored in their ways than mainstream, traditional religions. This volume examines radical transformations undergone by a variety of minority religions, including the Children of God/ Family International; Gnosticism; Jediism; various manifestations of Paganism; LGBT Muslim groups; the Plymouth Brethren; Santa Muerte; and Satanism. As with other books in the Routledge/Inform series, the contributors approach the subject from a wide range of perspectives: professional scholars include legal experts and sociologists specialising in new religious movements, but there are also chapters from those who have experienced a personal involvement. The volume is divided into four thematic parts that focus on different impetuses for radical change: interactions with society, technology and institutions, efforts at legitimation, and new revelations. This book will be a useful source of information for social scientists, historians, theologians and other scholars with an interest in social change, minority religions and ‘cults’. It will also be of interest to a wider readership including lawyers, journalists, theologians and members of the general public.
Beyond the North Wind
Title | Beyond the North Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher McIntosh |
Publisher | Weiser Books |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2019-05-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1633410900 |
"The North" is simultaneously a location, a direction, and a mystical concept. Although this concept has ancient roots in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales, it continues to resonate today within modern culture. McIntosh leads readers, chapter by chapter, through the magical and spiritual history of the North, as well as its modern manifestations, as documented through physical records, such as runestones and megaliths, but also through mythology and lore. This mythic conception of a unique, powerful, and mysterious Northern civilization was known to the Greeks as "Hyberborea"--the "Land Beyond the North Wind"--which they considered to be the true origin place of their god, Apollo, bringer of civilization. Through the Greeks, this concept of the mythic North would spread throughout Western civilization. In addition, McIntosh discusses Russian Hyperboreanism, which he describes as among "the most influential of the new religions and quasi-religious movements that have sprung up in Russia since the fall of Communism" and which is currently almost unknown in the West.
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Modern Paganism
Title | Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Modern Paganism PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Rountree |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2016-12-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1137562005 |
This volume explores how Pagans negotiate local and global tensions as they craft their identities, both as members of local communities and as cosmopolitan “citizens of the world.” Based on cutting edge international case studies from Pagan communities in the United States, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Malta, it considers how modern Pagans negotiate tensions between the particular and universal, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, ethnicity, and world citizenship. The burgeoning of modern Paganisms in recent decades has proceeded alongside growing globalization and human mobility, ubiquitous Internet use, a mounting environmental crisis, the re-valuing of indigenous religions, and new political configurations. Cosmopolitanism and nationalism have both influenced the weaving of unique local Paganisms in diverse contexts. Pagans articulate a strong attachment to local or indigenous traditions and landscapes, constructing paths that reflect local socio-cultural, political, and historical realities. However, they draw on the Internet and the global circulation of people and universal ideas. This collection considers how they confound these binaries in fascinating, complex ways as members of local communities and global networks.