Anne‐christine Hornborg
Biographic Data
| ID | 189837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne‐christine Hornborg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne‐christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Hornborg |
| SIGNATURE | HORNBORG A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mindfulness – enrichment of the modern lifestyle
This article addresses healing practices performed under the umbrella of mindfulness in order to problematize how mindfulness is presented as a means to enrich a modern lifestyle.The discussion considers mindfulness in a contemporary Swedish context, presenting a range of healing practices.A fundamental question asked is if they represent a religious or spiritual practice or just a technique?The discussion also addresses the discursive strategies…
Leder religionsantropologins utmaningar och forskningsproblematik till nostalgiska elegier och idylliska tankar om ädla vildar: Svar på Anders Klostergaard Petersens review af Michael Rothstein, Regns…
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Theology, religious studies, the history of religion, and the anthropology of religion have different histories as research disciplines, which explains differences in how they pose research problems and define their research fields. In some respects, the disciplines have a lot in common and may cross-fertilize each other. In this article, I reflect on a theologian's critical review in Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift67 (2018) …
Contemporary Epidemiology: A Review of Critical Discussions Within the Discipline and A Call for Further Dialogue with Social Theory
The discipline of epidemiology, which holds major influence on public health policy as well as on clinical medical practice, has in recent decades to a large extent been concerned with the identification of factors and markers of risk for disease. Much health information and intervention is thus informed by a wealth of studies on a variety of risk factors, of which the individual is encouraged to keep informed and to be responsible about. Meanwhi…
Reid, Jennifer: Finding Kluskap. A Journey into Mi'kmaw Myth
Anthropos , Seite 736 - 737
Designing Rites to Re-enchant Secularized Society: New Varieties of Spiritualized Therapy in Contemporary Sweden
Are you content with being just ordinary? Or do you wish to make progress and be outstanding?' New ritual practices in contemporary Sweden
This article examines the emergence and features of new practices in contemporary Sweden, which are being sold to individuals as therapy or coaching in order for them find their ‘inner potential’ as a means to achieve health, self-realisation and prosperity in life as well as in work. The focus on the inner self and the formation of a new personhood demands new ritual creativity, responding to the individual’s longing for intense experiences of t…
Are We All Spiritual? A Comparative Perspective on the Appropriation of a New Concept of Spirituality
‘I'm spiritual - not religious’ has become a key expression of a new form of globalized religion focusing on a specific notion of spirituality, signifying a universal human essence, located deep inside each individual as a potential for wellbeing and personal transformation. The message is: spirituality unites us into a single humanity, while religion, with its dogma and rituals, separates us. This new concept of spirituality works mostly in symb…
Protecting Earth? Rappaport's Vision of Rituals as Environmental Practices
In this article I discuss the characteristics of ritual practices, according to Roy Rappaport’s general theory of ritual. I start by discussing technology as a kind of ritual product of science and then briefly present Rappaport’s ritual theory as an aid in understanding how the Mi’kmaq Indians of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, employed rituals in their efforts to protect a sacred mountain from being turned into a superquarry. In Ritual and Rel…
Visiting the Six Worlds: Shamanistic Journeys in Canadian Mi'kmaq Cosmology
Mi'kmaq Indians' descriptions of journeys between worlds, as we find them in tales collected from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth, are far too complex to fit into Mircea Eliade's model of shamanism or romantic images of Indians as being "at one with nature." The tales reveal six parallel worlds in which all types of beings belong to families, have wigwams, and search for food. The parallelism between worlds has no significanc…
Eloquent Bodies: Rituals in the Contexts of Alleviating Suffering
It seems that the revitalization of traditional rituals has been an effective way of developing a new embodiment and identity. The ability of the Canadian Mi'kmaq Indians to rework the cultural body, historically imposed on them by the dominant society, opens the way to weeding out destructive patterns unconsciously or consciously embedded historically in their bodies. The ritual opens up opportunities to explore new habitus and to employ the bod…
Différentes perceptions du paysage: Changement et continuité chez les Micmacs
Cet article porte sur la manière dont les Micmacs ont lutté contre le projet d’une vaste carrière dans les années 1990 sur l’île du Cap-Breton, Nouvelle-Écosse, en faisant référence à leurs traditions et à leur héros culturel, Kluskap. Tout d’abord, l’auteure explore la manière dont un chasseur micmac canadien et pré-moderne interprète le monde, tel que décrit dans les histoires traditionnelles qui ont été compilées de 1850 à 1923. Les prouesses …
Being in the Field: Reflections on a Mi'kmaq Kekunit Ceremony
This article has a threefold purpose. First, it seeks to show how modern rituals among Mi'kmaq traditionalists in eastern Canada are anchored in and derive their rationale from modern reserve existence. Two rituals are described, a kekunit godparent ceremony for a 14‐year‐old girl and a sweat lodge ceremony later the same evening. Second, the article also provides an example of the paradoxes of “participant observation” by showing how engagement …
Visiting the Six Worlds: Shamanistic Journeys in Canadian Mi'kmaq Cosmology
Mi'kmaq Indians' descriptions of journeys between worlds, as we find them in tales collected from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth, are far too complex to fit into Mircea Eliade's model of shamanism or romantic images of Indians as being "at one with nature." The tales reveal six parallel worlds in which all types of beings belong to families, have wigwams, and search for food. The parallelism between worlds has no significanc…
Eloquent Bodies: Rituals in the Contexts of Alleviating Suffering
It seems that the revitalization of traditional rituals has been an effective way of developing a new embodiment and identity. The ability of the Canadian Mi'kmaq Indians to rework the cultural body, historically imposed on them by the dominant society, opens the way to weeding out destructive patterns unconsciously or consciously embedded historically in their bodies. The ritual opens up opportunities to explore new habitus and to employ the bod…
Being in the Field: Reflections on a Mi'kmaq Kekunit Ceremony
This article has a threefold purpose. First, it seeks to show how modern rituals among Mi'kmaq traditionalists in eastern Canada are anchored in and derive their rationale from modern reserve existence. Two rituals are described, a kekunit godparent ceremony for a 14‐year‐old girl and a sweat lodge ceremony later the same evening. Second, the article also provides an example of the paradoxes of “participant observation” by showing how engagement …
Différentes perceptions du paysage: Changement et continuité chez les Micmacs
Cet article porte sur la manière dont les Micmacs ont lutté contre le projet d’une vaste carrière dans les années 1990 sur l’île du Cap-Breton, Nouvelle-Écosse, en faisant référence à leurs traditions et à leur héros culturel, Kluskap. Tout d’abord, l’auteure explore la manière dont un chasseur micmac canadien et pré-moderne interprète le monde, tel que décrit dans les histoires traditionnelles qui ont été compilées de 1850 à 1923. Les prouesses …
Eloquent Bodies: Rituals in the Contexts of Alleviating Suffering
It seems that the revitalization of traditional rituals has been an effective way of developing a new embodiment and identity. The ability of the Canadian Mi'kmaq Indians to rework the cultural body, historically imposed on them by the dominant society, opens the way to weeding out destructive patterns unconsciously or consciously embedded historically in their bodies. The ritual opens up opportunities to explore new habitus and to employ the bod…
Visiting the Six Worlds: Shamanistic Journeys in Canadian Mi'kmaq Cosmology
Mi'kmaq Indians' descriptions of journeys between worlds, as we find them in tales collected from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth, are far too complex to fit into Mircea Eliade's model of shamanism or romantic images of Indians as being "at one with nature." The tales reveal six parallel worlds in which all types of beings belong to families, have wigwams, and search for food. The parallelism between worlds has no significanc…
Protecting Earth? Rappaport's Vision of Rituals as Environmental Practices
In this article I discuss the characteristics of ritual practices, according to Roy Rappaport’s general theory of ritual. I start by discussing technology as a kind of ritual product of science and then briefly present Rappaport’s ritual theory as an aid in understanding how the Mi’kmaq Indians of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, employed rituals in their efforts to protect a sacred mountain from being turned into a superquarry. In Ritual and Rel…
Are We All Spiritual? A Comparative Perspective on the Appropriation of a New Concept of Spirituality
‘I'm spiritual - not religious’ has become a key expression of a new form of globalized religion focusing on a specific notion of spirituality, signifying a universal human essence, located deep inside each individual as a potential for wellbeing and personal transformation. The message is: spirituality unites us into a single humanity, while religion, with its dogma and rituals, separates us. This new concept of spirituality works mostly in symb…
Designing Rites to Re-enchant Secularized Society: New Varieties of Spiritualized Therapy in Contemporary Sweden
Are you content with being just ordinary? Or do you wish to make progress and be outstanding?' New ritual practices in contemporary Sweden
This article examines the emergence and features of new practices in contemporary Sweden, which are being sold to individuals as therapy or coaching in order for them find their ‘inner potential’ as a means to achieve health, self-realisation and prosperity in life as well as in work. The focus on the inner self and the formation of a new personhood demands new ritual creativity, responding to the individual’s longing for intense experiences of t…
Reid, Jennifer: Finding Kluskap. A Journey into Mi'kmaw Myth
Anthropos , Seite 736 - 737
Contemporary Epidemiology: A Review of Critical Discussions Within the Discipline and A Call for Further Dialogue with Social Theory
The discipline of epidemiology, which holds major influence on public health policy as well as on clinical medical practice, has in recent decades to a large extent been concerned with the identification of factors and markers of risk for disease. Much health information and intervention is thus informed by a wealth of studies on a variety of risk factors, of which the individual is encouraged to keep informed and to be responsible about. Meanwhi…
Leder religionsantropologins utmaningar och forskningsproblematik till nostalgiska elegier och idylliska tankar om ädla vildar: Svar på Anders Klostergaard Petersens review af Michael Rothstein, Regns…
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Theology, religious studies, the history of religion, and the anthropology of religion have different histories as research disciplines, which explains differences in how they pose research problems and define their research fields. In some respects, the disciplines have a lot in common and may cross-fertilize each other. In this article, I reflect on a theologian's critical review in Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift67 (2018) …
Mindfulness – enrichment of the modern lifestyle
This article addresses healing practices performed under the umbrella of mindfulness in order to problematize how mindfulness is presented as a means to enrich a modern lifestyle.The discussion considers mindfulness in a contemporary Swedish context, presenting a range of healing practices.A fundamental question asked is if they represent a religious or spiritual practice or just a technique?The discussion also addresses the discursive strategies…
Sociology (10 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works)