Norse revival : transformations of Germanic neopaganism / by Stefanie von Schnurbein
- Author:
- Schnurbein, Stefanie v.
- Published:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 418 pages .).
- Access Online:
- www.jstor.org
- Series:
- Studies in critical research on religion ; VOLUME 5
- Restrictions on Access:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Initial Encounters -- Transformations and Key-Questions -- Twisted Terminologies -- What Others Say -- Complicated Involvements -- Receptions, Adaptions, and Goals -- 1.Creating the Paradigm: Historical Preconditions of Modern Asatru -- The Search for a National Mythology in European Romanticism -- The Search for a German Religion in Fin de Siecle Germany -- German(ic) Faith and Ariosophy in the Early Twentieth Century -- Post-War Revivals -- Witchcraft and the Celtic Revival -- 2.Creating a Religion: The Emergence and Development of Late Twentieth Century Asatru -- In Search of Religiosity: Germanic Neopaganism 1970--1990 -- In Search of Respectability -- Asatru after 1990 -- Asatru International -- 3.Believing and Doing -- Finding Asatru -- Heathen Beliefs -- Heathen Practices -- 4.Contested Fields I: Race and Ethnicity -- Asatru and National Socialism -- The `Folkish' Versus `Universalist' Controversy -- An `Ethnic Religion of Nature'? -- Ethno-Pluralism and the European New Right -- Cultural Essentialism beyond the New Right -- 5.Contested Fields II: Concepts of Religion and Anti-Monotheism -- Attitudes Towards Christianity -- The Question of Anti-Semitism -- Praising Polytheism -- Anti-Monotheism in Asatru -- Religion of Experience -- Heathenism as Religious Secularism -- 6.Asatru -- A Religion of Nature? -- Nature Spirituality in Asatru -- Environmental Protection, the Heimat-Movement and Volkisch Religion in Germany -- Nature Religion in England and the United States -- Nature and National Identity in Scandinavia -- Right-Wing Ecologism and Asatru -- 7.Gender and Sexuality -- The High Position of Germanic Women -- Masculinity and Mannerbund -- Queering Asatru? The Question of Sexuality -- 8.Asatru -- An Academic Religion? -- How Heathens Relate to their Sources -- Volkisch Scholarship and Germanic Faith -- Remnants of Volkisch Scholarship after 1945 -- Asatru Uses of Scholarship -- 9.Germanic Neopaganism -- A Nordic Art-Religion? -- Nineteenth Century Concepts of Germanic Art-Religion -- J.R.R. Tolkien and the Nordic Art-Religion of Middle-Earth -- Religious and Ideological Art in the German Faith Movement -- Heirs of Wagner and Tolkien: Asatru Novelists -- Dark Heirs of Wagner and Tolkien: Metal and Neofolk -- Art-Religion -- An Encompassing Paradigm? -- 10.Instead of a Conclusion.
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- ISBN:
- 9789004294356 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
900429435X
9789004309517 (e-book)
9004309519
9789004309517 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-411) and index.
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