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Hedenborg White, M. (2023). Amy Hale, ed., Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan [Review]. Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Amy Hale, ed., Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
2023 (English)In: Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, ISSN 1567-9896, E-ISSN 1570-0593Article, book review (Other academic) Epub ahead of print
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Brill Academic Publishers, 2023
Keywords
esotericism, western esotericism, women, gender and religion, occultism, magic
National Category
History of Religions
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-62073 (URN)10.1163/15700593-tat00006 (DOI)
Available from: 2023-08-23 Created: 2023-08-23 Last updated: 2023-08-28Bibliographically approved
Hedenborg White, M. (2023). "Be Thou Hadit, My Secret Centre": Gender and Egyptosophy in Aleister Crowley's Thelema. In: International Theosophical History Conference 2023, "The Reception of Egypt and the Ancients in Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents", Alexandria, Egypten, 13–14 oktober 2023.: . Paper presented at International Theosophical History Conference 2023, "The Reception of Egypt and the Ancients in Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents"..
Open this publication in new window or tab >>"Be Thou Hadit, My Secret Centre": Gender and Egyptosophy in Aleister Crowley's Thelema
2023 (English)In: International Theosophical History Conference 2023, "The Reception of Egypt and the Ancients in Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents", Alexandria, Egypten, 13–14 oktober 2023., 2023Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This paper analyses the reception of Egyptian antiquity in the central sacred text of the religion Thelema, founded by the British occultist Aleister Crowley. In spring 1904, Crowley was sojourning in Cairo when his wife Rose surprised him by channeling a message from the god Horus. At Crowley’s behest, Rose substantiated her revelation by leading Crowley to an offertory tablet in the Boulaq museum, showing a Theban priest presenting offerings to the god Ra-Horakhty (a melding of Horus and Ra) alongside the goddess Nut and the winged solar disk (Horus Behdety/Horus of Edfu). On April 8–10, Crowley then transcribed a revealed text: The Book of the Law. Proclaiming the advent of a new aeon, which Crowley later called the Aeon of Horus, the text comprises three chapters, ascribed, respectively, to the deities Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor- Khuit. Contrary to ancient Egyptian cosmologies, The Book of the Law posits an erotic, dialectical ontology whereby the ecstatic union of Nuit (the Thelemic cosmic feminine principle) and Hadit (the masculine principle) gives rise to Ra-Hoor-Khuit, identified with the liberating energies of the new aeon. In this paper, I will highlight the gendered connotations of Egyptological reception in The Book of the Law. 

Keywords
esotericism; gender; Thelema; Aleister Crowley; Egyptosophy
National Category
History of Religions
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-63211 (URN)
Conference
International Theosophical History Conference 2023, "The Reception of Egypt and the Ancients in Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents".
Available from: 2023-10-22 Created: 2023-10-22 Last updated: 2023-10-23Bibliographically approved
Hedenborg White, M. (2023). Den scharlakansröda gudinnan: Genus och sexualitet inom västerländsk esoterism. In: Dennis Augustsson, Charlotta Carlström, Emma Hall, Bodil Liljefors Persson (Ed.), Religion och samhällsförändring: Aktuella perspektiv i religionsvetenskaplig forskning (pp. 55-71). Stockholm: Liber
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Den scharlakansröda gudinnan: Genus och sexualitet inom västerländsk esoterism
2023 (Swedish)In: Religion och samhällsförändring: Aktuella perspektiv i religionsvetenskaplig forskning / [ed] Dennis Augustsson, Charlotta Carlström, Emma Hall, Bodil Liljefors Persson, Stockholm: Liber, 2023, p. 55-71Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Liber, 2023
Keywords
västerländsk esoterism; esoterism; ockultism; genus och sexualitet; Aleister Crowley; apokalyptisk
National Category
History of Religions
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-58782 (URN)9789147146963 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-03-23 Created: 2023-03-23 Last updated: 2023-03-27Bibliographically approved
Gregorius, F. & Hedenborg White, M. (2023). Lucien Greaves (The Satanic Temple), "Church of Satan vs. Satanic Temple" (2017). In: Per Faxneld; Johan Nilsson (Ed.), Satanism: A Reader. new york: Oxford University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Lucien Greaves (The Satanic Temple), "Church of Satan vs. Satanic Temple" (2017)
2023 (English)In: Satanism: A Reader / [ed] Per Faxneld; Johan Nilsson, new york: Oxford University Press, 2023Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
new york: Oxford University Press, 2023
Keywords
satanism, The Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves, religion and politics
National Category
History of Religions
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-61844 (URN)9780199913558 (ISBN)9780197650394 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-08-14 Created: 2023-08-14 Last updated: 2023-08-25Bibliographically approved
(2023). Maktquiz.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Maktquiz
2023 (Swedish)Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-63801 (URN)
Available from: 2023-11-21 Created: 2023-11-21 Last updated: 2023-11-21Bibliographically approved
Hedenborg White, M. (2023). Mindfulness som historiskt och kulturellt fenomen: en forskningsöversikt. Malmö universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Mindfulness som historiskt och kulturellt fenomen: en forskningsöversikt
2023 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Mindfulness är den mest utbredda engelska översättningen av begreppet sati, och förstås i dagligt tal – liksom i kliniska och experimentella program – som synonymt med medveten närvaro. Inom de buddhistiska traditioner begreppet härstammar ifrån har sati flera olika betydelser, och hänger samman med buddhistiska idéer om etik, jagets obeständighet, frigörelse från återfödelse och upplysning. Dessa aspekter tonas ner när mindfulness saluförs och utövas på sekulära arenor. I denna text lyfts de idéhistoriska rötterna till samtida mindfulness liksom frågor om vilka som utövar mindfulness idag, och i vilka sammanhang. I texten identifieras även områden för framtida forskning.  

De viktigaste slutsatserna är att

  • Utvecklingen av mindfulness i väst är resultatet av kulturella utbyten mellan buddhistiska lärda och västerländska uttolkare av buddhism sedan 1800-talets slut.
  • Meditation förstås ofta samtidigt som buddhismens kärna och som något som kan frikopplas från buddhistiska läror, ritualer och traditioner.
  • I dagens Asien har förståelsen av mindfulness starkare kopplingar till buddhistiska läror än i väst.
  • Samtida förståelser av mindfulness formas av utbyten mellan vetenskapliga och andliga arenor.
  • Många västerländska lärare i mindfulness är själva skolade i buddhistisk meditation, men betonar vetenskap och personlig erfarenhet när mindfulness utövas på sekulära arenor.
  • Den mesta forskningen om samtida mindfulness fokuserar på lärare eller producenter, medan vi vet mindre om människor som utövar mindfulness i vardagen.
  • De flesta som utövar mindfulness i väst idag är kvinnor, trots det finns det endast ett fåtal studier av samtida mindfulness ur ett genusperspektiv.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö universitet, 2023. p. 41
National Category
Religious Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-63140 (URN)
Available from: 2023-10-13 Created: 2023-10-13 Last updated: 2023-10-16Bibliographically approved
Hedenborg White, M. (2022). Kiss and Do Not Tell: The Practice and Function of Secrecy in a Modern Esoteric Order. In: : . Paper presented at Seminar: Privacy, Secrecy, and Esotericism, Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.. University of Copenhagen
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kiss and Do Not Tell: The Practice and Function of Secrecy in a Modern Esoteric Order
2022 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
University of Copenhagen, 2022
Keywords
Ordo Templi Orientis; Thelema; Aleister Crowley; Secrecy; Western esotericism
National Category
History of Religions
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-56587 (URN)
Conference
Seminar: Privacy, Secrecy, and Esotericism, Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Available from: 2022-12-12 Created: 2022-12-12 Last updated: 2023-01-03Bibliographically approved
Hedenborg White, M. (2022). Ordo Templi Orientis [WRSP Directory]. World Religions and Spirituality Project
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ordo Templi Orientis [WRSP Directory]
2022 (English)Other (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, pages
World Religions and Spirituality Project, 2022
Keywords
Ordo Templi Orientis, Thelema; Western esotericism, Aleister Crowley
National Category
History of Religions
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-56586 (URN)
Available from: 2022-12-12 Created: 2022-12-12 Last updated: 2022-12-16Bibliographically approved
Radmann, A., Hedenborg White, M. & Hedenborg, S. (2022). Segregated femininities?: Creating female fandom through social media in Sweden. Soccer & Society, 23(3), Article ID 2037213.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Segregated femininities?: Creating female fandom through social media in Sweden
2022 (English)In: Soccer & Society, ISSN 1466-0970, E-ISSN 1743-9590, Vol. 23, no 3, article id 2037213Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The study analyses female fandom in Sweden, focusing on female football supporters' self-presentation on social media. We found social media to function as a forum for empowerment, where the female football fans construct and express solidarity between girls and women and challenge hegemonic notions of femininity. Female football supporters are actively involved in formulating and shaping their own agenda and self-presentation and are drawn to the supporter culture for many of the same reasons as their male peers: group community, thrill and excitement, and the love for their team. The contribution of the study is two-fold: it fills a knowledge gap regarding Swedish female fans, while also making a conceptual intervention in the study of female fandoms more broadly, demonstrating the usefulness of critical theorization on femininities and indicating how social media enables female football supporters to 'play' with different conceptions of femininity to create space within the supporter milieu.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2022
National Category
Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-50454 (URN)10.1080/14660970.2022.2037213 (DOI)000758607900001 ()
Available from: 2022-03-07 Created: 2022-03-07 Last updated: 2022-06-03Bibliographically approved
Hedenborg White, M. (2022). ‘Unfold the Rose and Taste its Death’: Grief, Desire, and the Hero’s Journey in the Art and Poetry of Cameron. In: : . Paper presented at The 8th Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism University College Cork 5-7 July 2022. European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism
Open this publication in new window or tab >>‘Unfold the Rose and Taste its Death’: Grief, Desire, and the Hero’s Journey in the Art and Poetry of Cameron
2022 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, 2022
Keywords
Western esotericism; esotericism and art; Thelema; comparative mythology; Marjorie Cameron
National Category
History of Religions
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-56588 (URN)
Conference
The 8th Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism University College Cork 5-7 July 2022
Available from: 2022-12-12 Created: 2022-12-12 Last updated: 2022-12-16Bibliographically approved
Projects
Power through closeness? Female authority and agency in a male-led new religion [2018-00439_VR]; Södertörn University
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