Anne-Christine Hornborg – författare

This book seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi'kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi'kmaq culture hero Kluskap serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as traditions, changing conceptions of land, and human-environmental relations. In order not to depict Mi'kmaq culture as timeless, two important periods in its history are examined. Within the first period, between 1850 and 1930, Hornborg explores historical evidence of the ontology, epistemology, and ethics - jointly labelled animism - that stem from a premodern Mi'kmaq hunting subsistence. New ways of discussing animism and shamanism are here richly exemplified. The second study situates the culture hero in the modern world of the 1990s, when allusions to Mi'kmaq tradition and to Kluskap played an important role in the struggle against a planned superquarry on Cape Breton. This study discusses the eco-cosmology that has been formulated by modern reserve inhabitants which could be labelled a 'sacred ecology'. Focusing on how the Mi'kmaq are rebuilding their traditions and environmental relations in interaction with modern society, Hornborg illustrates how environmental groups, pan-Indianism, and education play an important role, but so does reserve life. By anchoring their engagement in reserve life the Mi'kmaq traditionalists have, to a large extent, been able to confront both external and internal doubts about their authenticity.

This book seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi'kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi'kmaq culture hero Kluskap serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as traditions, changing conceptions of land, and human-environmental relations. In order not to depict Mi'kmaq culture as timeless, two important periods in its history are examined. Within the first period, between 1850 and 1930, Hornborg explores historical evidence of the ontology, epistemology, and ethics - jointly labelled animism - that stem from a premodern Mi'kmaq hunting subsistence. New ways of discussing animism and shamanism are here richly exemplified. The second study situates the culture hero in the modern world of the 1990s, when allusions to Mi'kmaq tradition and to Kluskap played an important role in the struggle against a planned superquarry on Cape Breton. This study discusses the eco-cosmology that has been formulated by modern reserve inhabitants which could be labelled a 'sacred ecology'. Focusing on how the Mi'kmaq are rebuilding their traditions and environmental relations in interaction with modern society, Hornborg illustrates how environmental groups, pan-Indianism, and education play an important role, but so does reserve life. By anchoring their engagement in reserve life the Mi'kmaq traditionalists have, to a large extent, been able to confront both external and internal doubts about their authenticity.

This book seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi''kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi''kmaq culture hero Kluskap serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as traditions, changing conceptions of land, and human-environmental relations. In order not to depict Mi''kmaq culture as timeless, two important periods in its history are examined. Within the first period, between 1850 and 1930, Hornborg explores historical evidence of the ontology, epistemology, and ethics - jointly labelled animism - that stem from a premodern Mi''kmaq hunting subsistence. New ways of discussing animism and shamanism are here richly exemplified. The second study situates the culture hero in the modern world of the 1990s, when allusions to Mi''kmaq tradition and to Kluskap played an important role in the struggle against a planned superquarry on Cape Breton. This study discusses the eco-cosmology that has been formulated by modern reserve inhabitants which could be labelled a ''sacred ecology''. Focusing on how the Mi''kmaq are rebuilding their traditions and environmental relations in interaction with modern society, Hornborg illustrates how environmental groups, pan-Indianism, and education play an important role, but so does reserve life. By anchoring their engagement in reserve life the Mi''kmaq traditionalists have, to a large extent, been able to confront both external and internal doubts about their authenticity.

This book seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi''kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi''kmaq culture hero Kluskap serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as traditions, changing conceptions of land, and human-environmental relations. In order not to depict Mi''kmaq culture as timeless, two important periods in its history are examined. Within the first period, between 1850 and 1930, Hornborg explores historical evidence of the ontology, epistemology, and ethics - jointly labelled animism - that stem from a premodern Mi''kmaq hunting subsistence. New ways of discussing animism and shamanism are here richly exemplified. The second study situates the culture hero in the modern world of the 1990s, when allusions to Mi''kmaq tradition and to Kluskap played an important role in the struggle against a planned superquarry on Cape Breton. This study discusses the eco-cosmology that has been formulated by modern reserve inhabitants which could be labelled a ''sacred ecology''. Focusing on how the Mi''kmaq are rebuilding their traditions and environmental relations in interaction with modern society, Hornborg illustrates how environmental groups, pan-Indianism, and education play an important role, but so does reserve life. By anchoring their engagement in reserve life the Mi''kmaq traditionalists have, to a large extent, been able to confront both external and internal doubts about their authenticity.

Har riter och ritualer spelat ut sin roll i det moderna samhället? Eller har de bara ändrat karaktär genom att sätta individen i centrum istället för traditionen? Att vara deprimerad, stressad, oinspirerad på arbetet eller bara vanlig ses som en brist. Utanför kyrkans själavårdande samtal eller den kliniska terapins rum vill nya entreprenörer med ett terapeutiskt språk och egencertifierat ledarskap sälja specialdesignade lösningar till individen för att bekämpa ohälsa, diskutera existentiella frågor eller hitta strategier för självförverkligande och framgång i privatlivet såväl som på arbetsplatsen. Den säljande idén är att det endast är coachen eller den nyandliga terapeuten som kan leda vägen till denna inre insikt. Det kan liknas vid en modern väckelse som speglar det nyliberala samhällets framgångsideologi. Ann Christine Hornborg är religionshistoriker och professor vid Centrum för Teologi och Religionsvetenskap vid Lunds universitet.

Att definiera sig som andlig men inte religiös har blivit allt vanligare under efterkrigstiden och är en inställning vi ofta förknippar med new age eller nyandlighet. Medan religion för tankarna till förstelnade institutioner, rigida normer och yttre auktoritet, ses andlighet istället som ett individuellt och kreativt förhållande till högre makter och olika religiösa traditioner. Med detta är inte nödvändigtvis någonting nytt, utan snarare ett förhållande till religion som vuxit fram under lång tid. I boken spåras dessa tendenser tillbaka genom historien. Bokens olika författare erbjuder religions- och naturvetenskapliga perspektiv på mystiska, esoteriska och andliga traditioner, med fokus på det samtida Europa och Nordamerika. Såväl forskningen som samtida företeelser skärskådas. Bokens tio författare är framstående forskare i religionshistoria och andra ämnen, verksamma vid universitet och högskolor i Sverige och utomlands.