Publisher: The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History

Guest Editors: Dr Tiina Mahlamäki and Dr Maarit Leskelä-Kärki

Editor: Ruth Illman, The Donner Institute, Finland

A new issue of the journal Approaching Religion with the theme “The history of modern Western esotericism” has been published.

AR is an open access journal published by the Donner Institute. Its purpose is to publish current research on religion and culture and to offer a platform for scholarly co-operation and debate within these fields. The articles have been selected on the basis of peer-review.

Table of Contents

• Editorial

– The history of modern Western esotericism, by Tiina Mahlamäki and Maarit Leskelä-Kärki

• Articles

– ‘The one and only true and salvational faith’, by Antti Harmainen
– Vera Hjelt and the calling of theosophical universal work, 1894–1904, by Marjo Kaartinen
– The Symbolist aesthetic and the impact of occult and esoteric ideologies on modern art, by Marja Lahelma
– Putting the spiritual into practice, by Julia Von Boguslawski and Jasmine Westerlund
– A relation of Swedenborgianism and anthroposophy, by Tiina Mahlamäki
– Esotericism in reverse, by Tomas Mansikka

• Book Reviews

– Esotericism throughout the centuries, by Tommy Ramstedt
– At the borders of knowledge, by  Juuso Järvenpää
– A deconstructed guru, by Hippo Taatila
– The artist through a glass darkly, by Karen Inez Swartz Larsson

Source: https://journal.fi/ar

Approaching Religion, Volume 7, No 2 (December 4, 2017)

Publisher: The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History

Guest Editors: Prof. Alexandra Grieser and Dr. Arianna Borrelli

Editor: Ruth Illman, The Donner Institute, Finland

A new issue of the journal Approaching Religion with the theme “The ‘Beauty Fallacy’: Religion, Science and the Aesthetics of Knowledge” has been published.

Approaching Religion (AR) is an academic open access journal published by the Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History in Åbo, Finland. Its purpose is to publish current research on religion and to offer a platform for scholarly co-operation and debate within the field. The journal appears twice a year and consists of articles, book reviews and discussions. It addresses an international readership and, as the title suggests, approaches the field of religion from a broad perspective, engaging contributors from different theoretical and methodological traditions.

The editorial board consists of scholars in comparative religion from Åbo Akademi University, University of Eastern Finland, University of Helsinki and University of Turku as well as and the Church Research Institute.

The journal publishes thematic issues in co-operation with guest editors from all over the world, representing a broad span of academic disciplines and traditions relating to the research on religion. Articles are selected on the basis of a double blind peer-review process, carried out in two steps. A first selection of articles is made by the editor and the guest editors. Thereafter the articles are assessed by external reviewers, in a process where both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from each other.

Table of Contents

• Editorial

– The ‘Beauty Fallacy’; Arianna Borrelli and Alexandra Grieser

• Articles

– Recent research on the aesthetics of knowledge in science and in religion; Arianna Borrelli and Alexandra Grieser
– Symmetry, beauty and belief in high-energy physics; Arianna Borrelli
– Beautiful destruction; Vanessa Cirkel-Bartelt
– Re-mapping life; Roberta Buiani

• Book Reviews

– Connecting concepts, creating worlds; W. Alan Smith
– The sublime; Jan Kenneth Weckman
– Thermodynamics and theology; Cathriona Russell
– Agency in image production; Thomas Cummins
– Finding beauty, goodness and truth in an ugly world; Ruth Illman

Source: https://journal.fi/ar