Ritually Framing Enchantment : Momentary religion and everyday realities

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Matter challenging words : From 'Angel Talisman' to 'Prayer Ornament´'

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Marion Bowman and Ülo Valk (eds): Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life: Expressions of Belief. Sheffield: Equinox, 2012, 404pp. [Book review]

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Learning healing relationality : Dynamics of religion and emotion

This chapter approaches religion—and specifically present-day lived religious expression—from the perspective of emotions and learning to work with emotions. After discussing the complex conjunctions of religion and emotion, the chapter provides an ethnographic case-study involving Finnish women engaging angel-spirituality as an example of a globalizing religious culture in which emotions receive attention as a key to self-understanding.Peer reviewe

Language, Presence and Transforming Christianities through the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion : Comment to Jon Bialecki

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The post-secular position and enchanted bodies

‘The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.’ This diagnosis of modern life, given by Gramsci, can be translated as pointing towards varying positions between secularity (even secularism), on the one hand, and (religious or pol­itical) belief and commitment on the other. This crossroads of belief and disbelief, or enchantment and disenchantment, is topical in new ways after recent revisions of secularization theories and the current revitalization of religions. Moreover, it also has bearings on how people bring together religions and bodies. The question examined in this article is: In what ways can diverse religious and spiritual practices bring about and construct new kinds of enchanted embodiments within contemporary life, and what is being done with these embodiments, both by people themselves and by scholars of religion. First, the author outlines a preliminary diagnosis of the current situation, which is approached as the desire for enchanted bodies. After that three ideal types of practices by which this desire could be seen to be enacted are tentatively identified. And finally, some implications of this diagnosis for the study of religion today are considered

Ethics and Embodiment in Ethnographic Interactions

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Healing Enchantment : How Does Angel Healing Work?

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Kuolettajanainen ja kuolemisen metonyymiset merkitykset

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