Rune Rasmussen

Nordic Animism

Religion EN ↓ 206 episodes

NORDIC ANIMISM IS A PODCAST and PROJECT HELMED BY RUNE HJARNØ RASMUSSEN. Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is an historian of religion, Ph.d., educated from the Universities of Uppsala and Copenhagen. Rune has lived in many countries and done fieldwork in a number of contemporary (primarily Afro-descendant) religions, but since childhood he has been strongly interested in Nordic religion. Today Rune is working on applying contemporary developments in anthropology to rethink the way we address Nordic religion, both in terms of scholarship, and also as a reservoir of cultural knowledge for environmental act...

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Rune Rasmussen

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Ancestors III 09.06.2022 20:12

Ancestors as 'others' in the criticial sense: L.P. Hartley once wrote 'The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.' Rune discusses how animist ansestry has little, even nothing, to do with 'race' and much more to do with mutal actualisation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alu 2 08.06.2022 29:35

Rune discusses the suprising relationship between alu (ale) and witch hunts, and reveals interesting aspects about pre-modern ideas of and ideals about gender. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aul 1 - Vessel of Connectedness 08.06.2022 16:48

Rune discusses that most sacred product of all nordic animism: aul. Ale. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All Souls Day 08.06.2022 18:03

Rune discusses the living animist strands found within All Souls' Day, also known as the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed and the Day of the Dead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Viking Take on White Guilt 08.06.2022 16:15

Concepts of race are mutable and have changed greatly over time. Rune examines pre-modernist concepts of race in the context of current day concerns. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Prayer to the Norns 08.06.2022 7:49

A Prayer to the Norns, rediscovered from within a saga. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.