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Eastern Practices and Nordic Bodies

Lived Religion, Spirituality and Healing in the Nordic Countries

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Editors:
  1. Daniel Enstedt

    1. Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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  2. Katarina Plank

    1. Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

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  • Focuses on spirituality, medicine and healing from a lived religion perspective
  • Examines the practices aligned with expressions of religiosity, alternative medicine, spirituality and healing practices
  • Sheds light on a cultural change in Nordic societies regarding religious, spiritual and alternative health practices

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introducing Eastern Practices and Nordic Bodies

    • Daniel Enstedt, Katarina Plank
    Pages 1-26

  4. Aesthetics, Nature, and New Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Embodying Qi in the Nordic Countries: The Healing Practices of Zhineng Qigong

      • Daniel Enstedt
      Pages 141-163

    3. Aikido’s Spirituality and Transplantation in the Nordic Countries: Spirituality in the Asian Martials Art

      • Tuomas Martikainen, Kimi Kärki
      Pages 165-190

    4. Towards Watery and Vibrating Bodies: Finnish Bodies Learning Tibetan Sound Healing

      • Linda Annunen, Terhi Utriainen
      Pages 191-210

    5. Meditation and Other New Spiritual Practices in the Church of Sweden

      • Katarina Plank, Linnea Lundgren, Helene Egnell
      Pages 211-229Open Access

    6. Acem and the Psychology of Meditation: The Inner History of a Living Practice

      • Halvor Eifring
      Pages 231-255

    7. Shinrin-Yoku in Sweden: The Political Significance of Embodiment and Sensory Attention in Nature

      • Henrik Ohlsson
      Pages 257-275

    8. Starving the Animal Within: Vegetarianism as Spiritual Development and Eastern Wisdom in Early Swedish Theosophy

      • Johan Nilsson
      Pages 277-294

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 295-306
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About this book

This volume explores the reception, development and construction of Eastern practices in the Nordic countries. The focus is on spirituality, medicine and healing from a lived religion perspective. Besides a geographical focus on the Nordic countries and their characteristics, this collection examines the embodied practices aligned with different expressions of religiosity, alternative medicine, spirituality and healing practices. By addressing questions about how so-called Eastern practices are embodied, spread and materialized, the contributors shed light on a cultural change in Nordic societies regarding religious, spiritual and alternative health practices, that are sometimes at odds with the dominant medical discourse about life-threatening diseases and other types of conditions.

Reviews

“A cutting-edge volume exploring the complex uptake of ‘eastern’ practices by Nordic practitioners: excellently analysed and of transnational import.”—Dr Steven Sutcliffe, Study of Religion/s, University of Edinburgh

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Daniel Enstedt

  • Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

    Katarina Plank

About the editors

Daniel Enstedt is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Katarina Plank is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Eastern Practices and Nordic Bodies

  • Book Subtitle: Lived Religion, Spirituality and Healing in the Nordic Countries

  • Editors: Daniel Enstedt, Katarina Plank

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38118-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38117-1Published: 14 October 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38120-1Due: 14 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38118-8Published: 13 October 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2657

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2665

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 306

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Comparative Religion, Sociology of Religion, Spirituality

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