"Alla dessa rörelser äro endast grenar på samma träd" : Nelly Thürings tillämpade teosofi
Magic in Art, Poetry, and Biography : Marjorie Cameron’s Illustrated Notebooks c. 1956–1964
The article analyzes four works of poetry and illustration produced by the artist, poet, and occultist Marjorie Cameron (1922–1995) in the 1950s and 1960s. Widow of rocket scientist and occultist John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons (1914–1952), an early follower of Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) religion Thelema, Cameron was also a friend and collaborato...
Western Esotericism
This chapter provides a condensed and selective history of notions of gender and sexuality in (Western) esotericism, a complex of genealogically related religious currents originating in late antiquity, which emphasize an intuitive, experiential knowledge ("gnosis") beyond faith and rational enquiry. In the chapter, it is argued that the complex, h...
Människa eller mänskligt liv i vardande? : En historisk genomgång av trosföreställningar kring abort inom judendom och k...
Judendom och kristendom härstammar från samma rot, men trots detta ser diskussionerna kring abort olika ut bland religionerna. Den här uppsatsen syftar till att beskriva trosföreställningar kring livets begynnelse, besjälning och fostrets status som avgörande faktorer för hur synen på abort inom judendom och kristendom har sett ut sedan antiken fra...
Fire-Faith and the Gnostic Neo-Templars : Aleister Crowley’s Gnostic Catholic Mass and Its c. 1917 German Translation by...
The article analyses the early development of Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) Gnostic Catholic Mass and its c. 1917 German translation by Theodor Reuss (1855–1923), the founder and first international head of the initiatory fraternity Ordo Templi Orientis. Crowley’s Gnostic Mass is an influential and important example of esoteric group ritual still ...
For freedom and justice? : The Vasara circle as a conduit of conspiracist antisemitism in inter-war Finland
This article analyses the Finnish circle of far-right activists around the publishing company Vasara (`Hammer'), set up in 1931. The analysis consists of a comprehensive survey of the backgrounds of the group members, the range of their antisemitic publication activities throughout the inter-war era, the sources of their published material and the ...
A Mutually Beneficial Relationship : Saints and the Legitimization of Elite Ecclesiastical Institutions in Sweden and De...
Paul’s letters to the seven churches and their pastoral appendix : a proposal regarding the emergence of the corpus paul...
This article deals with the issue of the collection and formation of the Corpus Paulinum. It argues that a collection of Pauline letters to seven churches was crucial to this development. This collection possibly also included Hebrews in conjunction with Romans, but not Philemon. Another parallel collection was made of four letters to individuals, ...
Ascetic poetry in ancient India : The ideal renouncer and the path to liberation, according to independent verses in ear...
The dissertation identifies the ideal renouncer and the path to liberation on the basis of nearly 3500 “independent verses”, i.e. one-strophe stanzas (gāthās, ślokas), in early Brahmanic, Buddhist, and Jaina literature, including Mahābhārata, Suttanipāta, Dhammapada, Saṃyuttanikāya, Uttarajjhayaṇa, Sūyagaḍa, Isibhāsiyāiṃ, and other texts. It is arg...
Ledare av Guds nåde : En undersökning om aspekter av det karismatiska ledarskapet
The thesis aims to present and evaluate Liselotte Frisk’s usage of the father of charismatic research, Max Weber’s, theories regarding charismatic leadership. It does this by examining, using textual analysis, chapters from two works meant to examine and categorize new religious movements. The two works are “Nya religiösa rörelser” and “De nya reli...
