Romantic Indigenizing of New Religions in Contemporary Europe Critical Methodological Remarks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8043948 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bjørn Ola Tafjord (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 303-327 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal for the Study of New Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2041-9511 • E-ISSN: 2041-952X |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/ijsnr.37626 |
| OpenAlex | W2981853561 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 23 |
Romanticisms, not colonialisms, drive the indigenizing and the religionizing in the cases described and analyzed in this special issue. In what follows, I shall explain what I mean by this observation and suggest ways to think about it critically. The task of this essay is to highlight entangled methodological and political contexts for the discussion about “indigenizing” that Graham Harvey opened in his introduction, a discussion that the different case studies then continued and exemplified. Inspired by Paul Christopher Johnson’s theorizing about indigenizing (Johnson 2002a), Harvey asks whether it is useful to employ the concepts “indigenous” and “indigenizing” in studies of contemporary movements in Europe: British Druids (studied by Suzanne Owen), Italian shamans and witches (by Angela Puca), The English Bear Tribe (by Graham Harvey), Irish or Celtic Pagans (by Jenny Butler), English Powwow enthusiasts (by Christina Welch), Anastasians in Lithuania and Russia (by Rasa Pranskevi?i?t?), and Goddess devotees in Glastonbury (by Amy Whitehead). These are movements (and scholars) that have been associated with the study of paganisms and the study of new religious movements, but usually not with the study of indigenous religions (except Harvey and Owen who have worked extensively in both fields of research
Celtic languages · Romance · Tribe · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
Theorizing myth
Terror in the Mind of God
Savage systems
The Origins of IndigenismHuman Rights and the Politics of Identity
Anders Breivik and The Rise of Islamophobia
Earth Beings
Geontologies
Kalahari revisionism, Vienna and the‘indigenous peoples’ debate
The Heathen in His Blindness
Including and Excluding Indigenous Religion through Law
Indigenous Religion(s) as an Analytical Category
Bible, guns and land
Mother Earth
Struggle over Meanings
We Have a Religion
God Is Red
The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality
The Shifting Middle Ground
Hungary
Indigenous diasporas and dislocations
Indigenous peoples' rights and the politics of the term 'indigenous
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |