Per Faxneld
Biographic Data
| ID | 4185965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Per Faxneld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Per |
| FAMILY NAME | Faxneld |
| SIGNATURE | FAXNELD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9264-0395 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“A Link with the Subtle Worlds”: Negotiating Spirituality in Bujinkan Budō Taijutsu (Ninjutsu)
The Japanese martial art bujinkan budō taijutsu ( ninjutsu ) was disseminated globally in the 1970s, becoming popularised in the early 1980s in conjunction with a surge of ninja films. The article uses the evolution of bujinkan in Sweden over the last fifty years as a case study of how spirituality, a key feature in the books by the art’s grandmaster Hatsumi Masaaki and some of his western disciples, is negotiated among practitioners. It draws on…
Kennet Granholm (red.), Perspektiv på esoterisk nyandlighet, Åbo: Åbo Akademi 2008
Förnuftet är en dålig guide: Sekularitet och andlighetsdiskurs inom östasiatiska kampkonster i Väst
Fornuftet ar en dalig guide : Sekularitet och andlighetsdiskurs inom ostasiatiska kampkonster i Vast
Mirages and visions in the air
Around the year 1900, European discourse on art was becoming increasingly 'esotericized'. The 1890s saw esoteric art salons create a sensation in Paris, and art critics and theorists painted a picture of the true artist and the esotericist as overlapping figures. There was also at the time a conflict regarding mediumistic art, a phenomenon initially made popular through Spiritualist mediums. This debate, as we shall see, had interesting gendered …
Satanic Feminism
According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan’s advice to eat of the forbidden fruit. The notion of woman as the Devil’s accomplice is prominent throughout the history of Christianity and has been used to legitimate the subordination of wives and daughters. During the nineteenth century, rebellious females performed counter-readings of this misogynist tradition. Hereby, Lucifer was reconceptualized as a feminist liberator of womankind, …
Witches as Rebels against Patriarchy
Chapter 6 provides a reading of how the subversive potential of the figure of the witch was utilized to attack the oppression of women. It commences with a discussion of Jules Michelet’s La Sorcière (1862), then considers how medical discourse on historical witches as hysterics was conflated with slander of feminists as hysterical and caricatures of them as witches. After that follows a treatment of American feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage, who pres…
Romantic and Socialist Satanism: Lucifer As the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Chapter 3 treats the fact that from the very start, literary Satanism has had a pronounced political dimension. It provides an overview of the radical Romantics who made Satan a symbol of rebellion against oppressive religious structures, and how socialists later appropriated this strategy of resistance to religious mores. Special attention is given to Percy Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam (1817), perhaps the first piece of Satanic feminism. Later,…
Mona Lisa’s Mysterious Smile
The article discusses the view, held by many nineteenth-century authors, of Leonardo da Vinci as an esotericist, and his La Gioconda as mysterious, sinister and filled with hidden signs. This “esoterization” of the painting and its creator was part of a broader tendency to view artists, both historical and contemporary, as magicians and mystics in some sense. Hereby, art became integrated into the endeavors of various esoteric groups and thinkers…
Blavatsky the Satanist: Luciferianism in Theosophy, and its Feminist Implications
H. P. Blavatsky’s influential The Secret Doctrine (1888), one of the foundation texts of Theosophy, contains chapters propagating an unembarrassed Satanism. Theosophical sympathy for the Devil also extended to the name of their journal Lucifer, and discussions conducted in it. To Blavatsky, Satan is a cultural hero akin to Pro- metheus. According to her reinterpretation of the Christian myth of the Fall in Genesis 3, Satan in the shape of the ser…
The Devil is Red: Socialist Satanism in the Nineteenth Century
During the nineteenth century, socialists all over the Western world employed Satan as a symbol of the workers’ emancipation from capitalist tyranny and the toppling of the Christian Church, which they perceived as a protector of this oppressive system. Starting with the English Romantics at the end of the eighteenth century, European radicals developed a discourse of symbolic Satanism, which was put to use by major names in socialism like Godwin…
Contemporary Religious Satanism: A Critical Anthology
Review: Jesper Aagaard Petersen (ed.), Contemporary Religious Satanism: A Critical Anthology
The Strange Case of Ben Kadosh: A Luciferian Pamphlet from 1906 and its Current Renaissance
In diesem Aufsatz wird ein früher und ziemlich unbekannter Satanist namens Ben Kadosh behandelt (Carl William Hansen 1872–1936), der in Dänemark am Anfang des 20en Jahrhunderts tätig war. Kadosh hat in der Gründung mehreren Freimauerlogen teilgenommen und stand mit einer Reihe von wohlbekannten esoterischen und literarischen Persönlischkeiten in Verbindung. Als sein System eine eklektische Mischung darstellte, wo der griechische Gott Pan beispiel…
The Lure of the Dark Side. Satan and Western Demonology in Popular Culture
Review of Christopher Partridge & Eric Christianson (eds.) The Lure of the Dark Side. Satan and Western Demonology in Popular Culture (2009)
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The Strange Case of Ben Kadosh: A Luciferian Pamphlet from 1906 and its Current Renaissance
In diesem Aufsatz wird ein früher und ziemlich unbekannter Satanist namens Ben Kadosh behandelt (Carl William Hansen 1872–1936), der in Dänemark am Anfang des 20en Jahrhunderts tätig war. Kadosh hat in der Gründung mehreren Freimauerlogen teilgenommen und stand mit einer Reihe von wohlbekannten esoterischen und literarischen Persönlischkeiten in Verbindung. Als sein System eine eklektische Mischung darstellte, wo der griechische Gott Pan beispiel…
The Lure of the Dark Side. Satan and Western Demonology in Popular Culture
Review of Christopher Partridge & Eric Christianson (eds.) The Lure of the Dark Side. Satan and Western Demonology in Popular Culture (2009)
Contemporary Religious Satanism: A Critical Anthology
Review: Jesper Aagaard Petersen (ed.), Contemporary Religious Satanism: A Critical Anthology
Blavatsky the Satanist: Luciferianism in Theosophy, and its Feminist Implications
H. P. Blavatsky’s influential The Secret Doctrine (1888), one of the foundation texts of Theosophy, contains chapters propagating an unembarrassed Satanism. Theosophical sympathy for the Devil also extended to the name of their journal Lucifer, and discussions conducted in it. To Blavatsky, Satan is a cultural hero akin to Pro- metheus. According to her reinterpretation of the Christian myth of the Fall in Genesis 3, Satan in the shape of the ser…
The Devil is Red: Socialist Satanism in the Nineteenth Century
During the nineteenth century, socialists all over the Western world employed Satan as a symbol of the workers’ emancipation from capitalist tyranny and the toppling of the Christian Church, which they perceived as a protector of this oppressive system. Starting with the English Romantics at the end of the eighteenth century, European radicals developed a discourse of symbolic Satanism, which was put to use by major names in socialism like Godwin…
Mona Lisa’s Mysterious Smile
The article discusses the view, held by many nineteenth-century authors, of Leonardo da Vinci as an esotericist, and his La Gioconda as mysterious, sinister and filled with hidden signs. This “esoterization” of the painting and its creator was part of a broader tendency to view artists, both historical and contemporary, as magicians and mystics in some sense. Hereby, art became integrated into the endeavors of various esoteric groups and thinkers…
Satanic Feminism
According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan’s advice to eat of the forbidden fruit. The notion of woman as the Devil’s accomplice is prominent throughout the history of Christianity and has been used to legitimate the subordination of wives and daughters. During the nineteenth century, rebellious females performed counter-readings of this misogynist tradition. Hereby, Lucifer was reconceptualized as a feminist liberator of womankind, …
Witches as Rebels against Patriarchy
Chapter 6 provides a reading of how the subversive potential of the figure of the witch was utilized to attack the oppression of women. It commences with a discussion of Jules Michelet’s La Sorcière (1862), then considers how medical discourse on historical witches as hysterics was conflated with slander of feminists as hysterical and caricatures of them as witches. After that follows a treatment of American feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage, who pres…
Romantic and Socialist Satanism: Lucifer As the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Chapter 3 treats the fact that from the very start, literary Satanism has had a pronounced political dimension. It provides an overview of the radical Romantics who made Satan a symbol of rebellion against oppressive religious structures, and how socialists later appropriated this strategy of resistance to religious mores. Special attention is given to Percy Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam (1817), perhaps the first piece of Satanic feminism. Later,…
Kennet Granholm (red.), Perspektiv på esoterisk nyandlighet, Åbo: Åbo Akademi 2008
Förnuftet är en dålig guide: Sekularitet och andlighetsdiskurs inom östasiatiska kampkonster i Väst
Fornuftet ar en dalig guide : Sekularitet och andlighetsdiskurs inom ostasiatiska kampkonster i Vast
Mirages and visions in the air
Around the year 1900, European discourse on art was becoming increasingly 'esotericized'. The 1890s saw esoteric art salons create a sensation in Paris, and art critics and theorists painted a picture of the true artist and the esotericist as overlapping figures. There was also at the time a conflict regarding mediumistic art, a phenomenon initially made popular through Spiritualist mediums. This debate, as we shall see, had interesting gendered …
“A Link with the Subtle Worlds”: Negotiating Spirituality in Bujinkan Budō Taijutsu (Ninjutsu)
The Japanese martial art bujinkan budō taijutsu ( ninjutsu ) was disseminated globally in the 1970s, becoming popularised in the early 1980s in conjunction with a surge of ninja films. The article uses the evolution of bujinkan in Sweden over the last fifty years as a case study of how spirituality, a key feature in the books by the art’s grandmaster Hatsumi Masaaki and some of his western disciples, is negotiated among practitioners. It draws on…
Art (10 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Religious studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Political science (4 works)