Handbook of Rituals in Contemporary Studies of Religion

Paul Linjamaa, Ph.D. (1984), Lund University, is associate Professor in Religious Studies at that university. He has published monographs and articles on early Christianity and the reception of ancient religions in modernity, including The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (Brill, 2019). Ive Brissman, Ph.D. (1966), Lund University, is Post-doctoral research fellow at that university. Brissman currently works on a project on woodland cemeteries and sustainability in Sweden and has previously published articles and works on a monograph on dark green spirituality in the Anthropocene. Tao Thykier Makeeff, Ph.D. (1978), Lund University. His recent research deals with the reception of antiquity among contemporary Hellenic Polytheists as well as contemporary "Viking" identities and the reception of Scandinavian religious history. He has published chapters and articles on a variety of subjects and is currently preparing his first monograph for publication.

Introduction: Ritual Creativity, Ive Brissman, Paul Linjamaa and Tao Thykier Makeeff



Part I. Ritual and Indigenous Religion

1. Earthen Spirituality or Cultural Genocide? Radical Environmentalism’s Appropriation of Native American Spirituality, Bron Taylor

2. The Return of Mi’kmaq to Living Tradition, Graham Harvey

3. Cosmologies of the Earth and Ether: Spirituality and Sociality among the Mi’kmaq, Warlpiri, and Māori, Michael Jackson

4. Subsumed Rituals: The Intrinsic Implications of Divination and Powerful Things among the Eastern Penan of Malaysian Borneo, Mikael Rothstein

5. Where is Here?, Ronald Grimes



Part II. Ritual, Ecology, and New Spiritualities

6. Financial Astrology: Taking Divination into the Heart of Capitalist Economy, Olav Hammer

7. Manipulating the Sticks: Reconstructing Aleister Crowley’s Use of Yijing Divination, Johan Nilsson

8. The Sounds of Silence: A Study of Minor Ritual Acts of Silence in Dark Green Spirituality, Ive Brissman

9. Durga is Also Living in Sweden: Celebrating a Hindu Festival in a Secular Setting, Göran Ståhle



Part III. Ritual and Body: Bodies as Rituals

10. Ritual Dance from a Philosophical Perspective, Erica Appelros

11. Transformation beyond the Threshold: The Reiterative Practice of Initiation in the Contemporary Initiatory Society Sodalitas Rosae Crucis (S.R.C.), Olivia Cejvan

12. Bringing Embodiment back to Antiquity: Manifesting Enlightenment through the Body in Valentinus’ Writings, Paul Linjamaa

13. "Man Who Catch Fly with Chopstick, Accomplish Anything": Ritualised Bodily Learning and the Pursuit of Excellence in the Martial Arts, Tao Thykier Makeeff



Part IV. Rituals in Regional Perspectives: African Christianity and Islam

14. Al-ṣalāt: The Ritual of Rituals in Islam, Jonas Otterbeck

15. Ritual Fields and Participation in the Alevi Festival in Hacıbektaş, Hege Markussen

16. Who Got the Rite Wrong? The Mavuno Alternative Christmas Service and Charismatic Ritual, Martina Björkander

17. A Ritual that Turned the World upside down: The Kimbanguist Annulment of Ham’s Curse, Mika Vähäkangas



Appendix

Anne-Christine Hornborg - Friend and Colleague, Olle Qvarnström

Bibliography of Professor Anne-Christine Hornborg