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Esoteeristen naisten lumottu toimijuus




AuthorsTiina Mahlamäki, Terhi Utriainen

PublisherTeologinen julkaisuseura

Publishing placeHelsinki

Publication year2019

JournalTeologinen Aikakauskirja

Journal acronymTA

Article number2

Volume124

Issue2

First page 116

Last page130

eISSN0040-3555

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/46609384


Abstract

Enchanted Agency among Finnish Esoteric Women — This article traces and explores esoteric agency among Finnish women, understanding agency as the capacity for a subject to make meaningful differences in her lifeworld, which consists of relations with the this-worldly and sometimes also the otherworldly. The article analyses the esoteric factors and features in the life, first, of the Anthroposophist and writer Kerstin Bergroth (1886–1975) and, second, of Finnish women in the present who have developed an interest in angel spirituality. Our analysis draws from scholarship on Western Esotericism in identifying how Finnish women from different generations enact participatory and even enchanted agency in the often complex spaces where secular society, Lutheran culture, and esoteric influences and worldviews coexist.


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