SIEF Working Group: "Ethnology of Religion"
Victoria Hegner
(Göttingen University)
Poster short abstract:
The working group 'Ethnology of Religion' was founded in 1989 in Stockholm, initiated by the Swedish ethnologist Nils-Arvid Bringeus. The object of the working group is to study religion and religiosity as it is practiced in everyday life, in the past as well as in the present.
Poster long abstract:
The working group 'Ethnology of Religion' was founded in 1989 in Stockholm, initiated by the Swedish ethnologist Nils-Arvid Bringeus. The object of the working group is to study religion and religiosity as it is practiced in everyday life, in the past as well as in the present. We focus on 'popular', 'folk' or 'vernacular' religion and less on the traditional institutional religions. Our interest is reflected in the themes of the organized conferences and includes also new religious movements, alternative and invisible religions as well as new spiritualities.
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