The Soul of the North - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soul of the North write by Neil Kent. This book was released on 2001. The Soul of the North available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text makes use of the unique and extant cultural forms of architecture and the visual arts, as well as statistics and other forms of documentary evidence.
The Soul of the North
The Soul of the North - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soul of the North write by J. D. Tómasson. This book was released on 2021-10. The Soul of the North available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Soul of the North is a a brief illustrated guide to the core beliefs and practices of Ásatrú. Written and illustrated by acclaimed author and artist J.D. Tómasson, this short book is an easy-to-understand, visual introduction to the revival of the ancient Norse "pagan" religion known as Ásatrú. Inside you will gain insights into the principles and practices of the religion, its rebirth and growth in Iceland, and how those who follow the ancient path today continue to honor their deities and ancestors as well as the natural environment through one of Europe's only surviving indigenous spiritual traditions.
A Cultural History of the Soul
A Cultural History of the Soul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cultural History of the Soul write by Kocku von Stuckrad. This book was released on 2022-02-15. A Cultural History of the Soul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The soul, which dominated many intellectual debates at the beginning of the twentieth century, has virtually disappeared from the sciences and the humanities. Yet it is everywhere in popular culture—from holistic therapies and new spiritual practices to literature and film to ecological and political ideologies. Ignored by scholars, it is hiding in plain sight in a plethora of religious, psychological, environmental, and scientific movements. This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin de siècle Germany, Kocku von Stuckrad examines a fascination spanning philosophy, the sciences, the arts, and the study of religion, as well as occultism and spiritualism, against the backdrop of the emergence of experimental psychology. He then explores how and why the United States witnessed a flowering of ideas about the soul in popular culture and spirituality in the latter half of the century. Von Stuckrad examines an astonishingly wide range of figures and movements—ranging from Ernest Renan, Martin Buber, and Carl Gustav Jung to the Esalen Institute, deep ecology, and revivals of shamanism, animism, and paganism to Rachel Carson, Ursula K. Le Guin, and the Harry Potter franchise. Revealing how the soul remains central to a culture that is only seemingly secular, this book casts new light on the place of spirituality, religion, and metaphysics in Europe and North America today.
Scandinavians
Scandinavians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scandinavians write by Robert Ferguson. This book was released on 2017-09-20. Scandinavians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An engaging, layered look into a culture complex enough both to produce stylish rain gear and to embrace the foul weather that necessitates it.” —The New York Times Book Review We fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system and healthy outdoor lifestyle; we devour their crime fiction. Even their strangely attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic, commonsensical acceptance of life’s vicissitudes. But how valid is this outsider’s view of Scandinavia, and how accurate is our picture of life in Scandinavia today? Scandinavians follows a chronological progression across the Northern centuries: the Vendel era of Swedish prehistory; the age of the Vikings; the Christian conversions of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland; the unified Scandinavian state of the late Middle Ages; the sea-change of the Reformation; the kingdom of Denmark-Norway; King Gustav Adolphus and the age of Sweden’s greatness; the cultural golden age of Ibsen, Strindberg, and Munch; the impact of the Second World War; Scandinavia’s postwar social democratic nirvana; and the terror attack of Anders Behring Breivik. Scandinavians is also a personal investigation, with award-winning author Robert Ferguson as the ideal companion as he explores not only the region’s society, politics, culture, and temperament, but also wide-ranging topics such as the power and mystique of Scandinavian women, from the Valkyries to the Vikings; from Nora and Hedda to Garbo and Bergman. “A delightful history in which the author truly captures ‘the soul of the North.’ ”—Kirkus Reviews
An Archaeology of the Soul
An Archaeology of the Soul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Archaeology of the Soul write by Robert L. Hall. This book was released on 1997. An Archaeology of the Soul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The richness and the range of Native American spirituality has long been noted, but it has never been examined so thoroughly, nor with such an eye for the amazing interconnectedness of Indian tribal ceremonies and practices, as in An Archaeology of the Soul. In this monumental work, destined to become a classic in its field, Robert Hall traces the genetic and historical relationships of the tribes of the Midwest and Plains--including roots that extend back as far as 3,000 years. Looking beyond regional barriers, An Archaeology of the Soul offers new depths of insight into American Indian ethnography. Hall uncovers the lineage and kinship shared by Native North Americans through the perspectives of history, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, biological anthropology, linguistics, and mythology. The wholeness and panoramic complexity of American Indian belief has never been so fully explored--or more deeply understood.
