Romantic Indigenizing of New Religions in Contemporary Europe Critical Methodological Remarks

IF 0.1 Q2 Arts and Humanities

International Journal for the Study of New Religions Pub Date : 2019-10-23 DOI:10.1558/ijsnr.37626

Bjørn Ola Tafjord

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Abstract

Romanticisms, not colonialisms, drive the indigenizing and the religionizing in the cases described and analyzed in this special issue. In what follows, I shall explain what I mean by this observation and suggest ways to think about it critically. The task of this essay is to highlight entangled methodological and political contexts for the discussion about “indigenizing” that Graham Harvey opened in his introduction, a discussion that the different case studies then continued and exemplified. Inspired by Paul Christopher Johnson’s theorizing about indigenizing (Johnson 2002a), Harvey asks whether it is useful to employ the concepts “indigenous” and “indigenizing” in studies of contemporary movements in Europe: British Druids (studied by Suzanne Owen), Italian shamans and witches (by Angela Puca), The English Bear Tribe (by Graham Harvey), Irish or Celtic Pagans (by Jenny Butler), English Powwow enthusiasts (by Christina Welch), Anastasians in Lithuania and Russia (by Rasa Pranskevi?i?t?), and Goddess devotees in Glastonbury (by Amy Whitehead). These are movements (and scholars) that have been associated with the study of paganisms and the study of new religious movements, but usually not with the study of indigenous religions (except Harvey and Owen who have worked extensively in both fields of research).

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当代欧洲新宗教的浪漫本土化——方法论评论

在本期特刊中描述和分析的案例中，推动本土化和宗教化的是浪漫主义，而不是殖民主义。在下文中，我将解释我所说的这一观察的含义，并提出批判性思考的方法。本文的任务是强调Graham Harvey在引言中开启的关于“本土化”的讨论的方法论和政治背景，不同的案例研究随后继续并举例说明了这一讨论。受到保罗·克里斯托弗·约翰逊关于本土化的理论（Johnson 2002a）的启发，哈维询问在欧洲当代运动的研究中使用“本土”和“本土化”的概念是否有用：英国德鲁伊教（苏珊娜·欧文研究）、意大利萨满和女巫（安吉拉·普卡研究）、英国熊部落（格雷厄姆·哈维研究），爱尔兰或凯尔特异教徒（Jenny Butler著），英国Powwow爱好者（Christina Welch著），立陶宛和俄罗斯的阿纳斯塔西娅人（Rasa Pranskevi？i？t？著），以及格拉斯顿伯里的女神崇拜者（Amy Whitehead著）。这些运动（和学者）与异教徒研究和新宗教运动研究有关，但通常与土著宗教研究无关（除了Harvey和Owen，他们在这两个研究领域都做了广泛的工作）。

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期刊介绍： The International Journal for the Study of New Religions considers submissions from both established scholars and research students from all over the world. Articles should be written for a general scholarly audience. All articles accepted by the editors are then peer-reviewed. International Journal for the Study of New Religions is published biannually in May and November. Each issue includes articles and a number of book reviews. The journal is published simultaneously in print and onlineThe language of publication is English, and submissions should be English.