توضیحاتی در مورد کتاب :
هنگامی که جیمز آر. لوئیس، یکی از ویراستاران مجموعه کنونی، برای اولین بار در اواخر سال 2009 به نروژ نقل مکان کرد، آماده نبود کشف کند که بسیاری از محققان در کشورهای شمال اروپا در حال تولید بورسیه های نوآورانه در مورد ادیان جدید و خرده فرهنگ عصر جدید هستند. در واقع، طی دهها سال گذشته، درصد نامتناسبی از محققان ادیان جدید در کشورهای شمال اروپا به وجود آمدهاند و در دانشگاههای دانمارک، فنلاند، نروژ، سوئد و کشورهای بالتیک تدریس میکنند. Nordic New Religions، با ویرایش مشترک Inga B. Tøllefsen، این زمینه مطالعاتی غنی را در این منطقه از جهان، با تمرکز بر بورس تحصیلی که توسط محققان در این منطقه از شمال اروپا تولید می شود، بررسی می کند.
فهرست مطالب :
Introduction
Part 1: Denmark
1 Mikael Rothstein: The Study of New Religions in Denmark: A Brief and Subjective Research History 1985–2014
2 Olav Hammer: Old New Religions in Scandinavia
3 Sara Møldrup Thejls: MISA and Natha: The Peculiar Story of a Romanian Tantric Yoga School
4 Margit Warburg: The Baha’is of the North
5 Kjersti Hellesøy and James R. Lewis: Danish Dianetics: Scholarship in the Church of Scientology in Scandinavia
Part 2: Finland
6 Tommy Ramstedt: The Study of New Religious Movements in Finland: An Overview of Previous Research
7 Jussi Sohlberg and Kimmo Ketola: From Western Esotericism to New Spirituality: The Diversity of New Age in Finland
8 Måns Broo, Marcus Moberg, Terhi Utriainen and Tommy Ramstedt: Diversification, Mainstreaming, Commercialization, and Domestication – New Religious Movements and Trends in Finland
9 Terhi Utriainen: Combining Christianity and New Age Spirituality: Angel Relation in Finland
Part 3: Norway
10 Ingvild Sælid Gilhus and Lisbeth Mikaelsson: The Study of New Religiosity in Norway
11 Siv Ellen Kraft: Royal Angels in the News: The Case of Märtha Louise, Astarte Education and the Norwegian News Press
12 Anne Kalvig: The Spiritist Revival: The Rising Voice of Popular Religion
13 Ann Kristin Eide: Studying Up, Down, Sideways and Through: Re-presenting Seeking in a Norwegian Setting
14 Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen: The Art of Living Foundation in Norway: Indigenization and Continuity
15 Margrethe Løøv: Acem: Disenchanted Meditation
16 Asbjørn Dyrendal: Norwegian ‘Conspirituality’ A Brief Sketch
17 Trude Fonneland: Approval of the Shamanistic Association: A Local Norwegian Construct with Trans-local Dynamics
Part 4: Sweden
18 Liselotte Frisk: New Religious Movements and Alternative Spirituality as an Academic Research Field in Sweden – Some Reflections
19 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
20 Peter Åkerbäck: The Spiritual Revolution, the Swedish Way
21 Brian Arly Jacobsen, Göran Larsson and Simon Sorgenfrei: The Ahmadiyya Mission to the Nordic Countries
22 Erik A.W. Östling: Herald of the Cosmic Brother Hood: The Story of the Swedish Contactee Sten Lindgren
23 Jessica Moberg: Are the Space Brothers Socialists? Swedish Indigenization of the UFO Mythical Complex
Part 5: Baltic States and Outside Perspectives
24 Milda Ališauskienė and Massimo Introvigne: Lithuanian Occulture and the Pyramid of Merkinė: Innovation or Continuity?
25 Rasa Pranskevičiūtė: The “Back to Nature” Worldview in Nature-Based Spirituality Movements: The Case of the Anastasians
26 Anita Stasulane: Activity of Hindu-Related Movements and Western Esoteric Groups in Latvia
27 Ringo Ringvee: New Religious Movements and New Age in Estonia
28 Murphy Pizza: Fire and Ice in Midvestjard: American Religion and Norse Identitiy in Minnesota’s Heathen Community
توضیحاتی در مورد کتاب به زبان اصلی :
When James R. Lewis, one of the editors of the current collection, first moved to Norway in late 2009, he was unprepared to discover that so many researchers in Nordic countries were producing innovative scholarship on new religions and on the new age subculture. In fact, over the past dozen years or so, an increasingly disproportionate percentage of new religions scholars have arisen in Nordic countries and teach at universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic countries. Nordic New Religions, co-edited with Inga B. Tøllefsen, surveys this rich field of study in this area of the world, focusing on the scholarship being produced by scholars in this region of northern Europe.