"That Must Have Been Uncanny!" Experiences of Invisible Others in Contemporary Finland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2606804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kia Andell (0000-0001-7394-5740, University of Turku, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-163 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| 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-2023-0022 |
| OpenAlex | W4389541521 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
This article* examines experiences of invisible others considered uncanny in the context of secularity in contemporary Finland. Drawing from experience-centred theories of religion and spiritual belief by Ann Taves and David Hufford, the article analyses how uncanny experiences are differentiated from other kinds of experience and how they are justified as real in first-person narratives written by Finnish experiencers. The empirical analysis distinguishes four characterisations of experience the authors consider uncanny, which also serve to convince them of the realness of their experience. By conversating these findings with studies of experiences deemed religious or supernatural, the article seeks to reinforce dialogue with research on similar experiences that people rather consider in scientific and everyday terms. The article then suggests a framework for cross-secular enquiry that would allow scholars in different fields to address differences in how secularity manifests in different locations. Such a methodological framework may create possibilities to juxtapose and compare similar kinds of experience that people may or may not consider supernatural in different secular societies
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Everyday life · Literature · Narrative · Secularity · Sociology · Uncanny · History · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
Introduction
The varieties of religious experience
Religious Experience Reconsidered
Preface to the Special Issue
Reassembling the Social
Ontological Conflicts and the Stories of Peoples in Spite of Europe
Experiences deemed religious
Caribbean Insular Mobilities
Discussing the Supernatural in Contemporary Finland
Adapting Christianity on the Siberian Edge during the Early Soviet Period
Somatic Modes of Attention
Hallucinations and Sensory Overrides
New Practices of Cultural Truth Making
Does God Exist in Methodological Atheism? On Tanya Lurhmann's When God Talks Back and Bruno Latour
Crossing the buffer
Mind and Spirit
Functional origins of religious concepts
The Cultural Kindling of Spiritual Experiences
A Hyperreal God and Modern Belief
| Highly cited | No |
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