The Practice of Wearing Crystals in Contemporary New Spirituality in Estonia
Supporting Oneself in Everyday Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18985113 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tenno Teidearu (0000-0002-4580-637X, Estonian National Museum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 131-154 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1736-6518 • E-ISSN: 2228-0987 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.2478/jef-2019-0007 |
| OpenAlex | W2955689277 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article concentrates on the practice of wearing crystals in Estonia. The practice is currently a popular phenomenon in New Spirituality on a global scale, although it is not an entirely novel trend. Crystals are part of the materiality of New Spirituality and so the aim of the article is to emphasize the meaning-making process of this materiality and of vernacular interpretations in the practice. Following the methodology of material culture studies, I focus on mutual relationships and interaction between humans and crystals and the significances gained through practice. Based on the perspectives of vernacular religion, the practice is embedded in people’s everyday lives. People wear crystals to support their human qualities and daily activities, and in practice crystals as material objects evolve intimate and profound relationship with people
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Everyday life · Literature · Materiality (auditing) · Meaning (existential) · Phenomenon · Sociology · Spiritual practice · Spirituality · Vernacular · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
Phenomenology and Material Culture
Art And Agency
Agency, Biography and Objects
Material culture and mass consumption
Introduction
The New Spirituality
Healing in the Spiritual Marketplace
Consuming the Self
Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West
Thinking Through Things
Spiritual Marketplace
Relativism and the Ontological Turn within Anthropology
The New Age
Beyond the Spiritual Supermarket
Vernacular Religion and the Search for Method in Religious Folklife
The materiality of cultural construction
Marching the devotional subject
Entangled
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |