Angel Spirituality in the World’s Happiest Country: The Attraction of Lorna Byrne among Finnish Women

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Journal of Religion in Europe Pub Date : 2021-06-02 DOI:10.1163/18748929-20211482

Elisa Mikkola

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Abstract

This article discusses how women in Finland, the happiest country in the world in 2019, use new spiritual services and angels to cope with everyday life. Should not the high living standard and level of happiness decrease spirituality, as Norris and Inglehart suggest? The research material was collected using questionnaires in talks given by Irish mystic Lorna Byrne in Helsinki in 2011 and 2015. For the women studied, angels offer support and bring enchantment to their lives in a way institutionalized religion does not. While the high level of existential security decreases their religiousness, it opens these women up to other alternatives for new spirituality.

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世界上最幸福国家的天使精神:洛娜·伯恩对芬兰女性的吸引力

芬兰是2019年世界上最幸福的国家，这篇文章讨论了芬兰女性如何利用新的精神服务和天使来应对日常生活。难道不应该像诺里斯和英格尔哈特所说的那样，高水平的生活水平和幸福程度会降低精神性吗?研究材料是在2011年和2015年爱尔兰神秘主义者洛娜·伯恩在赫尔辛基的演讲中通过问卷调查收集的。对于被研究的女性来说，天使提供支持，给她们的生活带来魅力，这是制度化的宗教所没有的。虽然高水平的生存安全感降低了她们的宗教信仰，但它为这些女性打开了通往新灵性的其他选择。

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期刊介绍： The peer-reviewed Journal of Religion in Europe (JRE) provides a forum for multi-disciplinary research into the complex dynamics of religious discourses and practices in Europe, both historically and contemporary. The Journal’s underlying idea is that religion in Europe is characterized by a variety of pluralisms. There is a pluralism of religious communities that actively engage with one another; there exists a pluralism of societal systems, such as nation, law, politics, economy, science, and art, all of them interacting with religious systems; finally, in a pluralism of scholarly discourses religious studies, legal studies, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology are addressing the religious dynamics involved.