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Faxneld, Per, DocentORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0001-9264-0395
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Faxneld, P. (2025). The Devil, Protest, and the Age of Revolution. In: Richard Raiswell; Michelle D. Brock; David R. Winter (Ed.), The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition: (pp. 357-371). London: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Devil, Protest, and the Age of Revolution
2025 (English)In: The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition / [ed] Richard Raiswell; Michelle D. Brock; David R. Winter, London: Routledge, 2025, p. 357-371Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The chapter details how Milton’s ambivalent depiction of Satan in Paradise Lost set off an admiration for the figure as a revolutionary hero. Growing into full maturity with romantics like Blake, Byron, and, especially, Shelley, the literary tradition of celebrating Satan immediately became intertwined with broader republican and secularist projects. By undermining the conventional understanding of Christian myth through drastic counter-readings, the bible’s function as a pillar of the established order-both political and religious-could be challenged. A similar approach was adopted by central anarchist thinkers like Godwin, Proudhon, and Bakunin. Other socialists perpetuated this radical tactic. In Sweden, it was employed by several leading social democrats around the year 1900, but eventually scrapped by mainline socialists when they decided to aim for parliamentary support and reforms rather than revolution. However, the symbolism of Satan as a noble eternal rebel has more recently resurfaced among West-German terrorists in the 1970s and North American secularist activists in the 2010s. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2025
National Category
Religious Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-57059 (URN)10.4324/9781003096603-19 (DOI)2-s2.0-105002879133 (Scopus ID)9781003096603 (ISBN)9780367561420 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-05-06 Created: 2025-05-06 Last updated: 2025-05-06Bibliographically approved
Faxneld, P. (2024). Crouching Secularity, Hidden Religion: Some Reflections on Studying East Asian Martial Arts in the EU. In: Lukas Pokorny, Laurence Cox, Lionel Obadia, Ugo Dessì (Ed.), Exploring East Asian Religions in the EU: (pp. 395-414). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Crouching Secularity, Hidden Religion: Some Reflections on Studying East Asian Martial Arts in the EU
2024 (English)In: Exploring East Asian Religions in the EU / [ed] Lukas Pokorny, Laurence Cox, Lionel Obadia, Ugo Dessì, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2024, p. 395-414Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Rhetoric about cultivating the self, mystical inner energy, and meditation permeates European discourse on East Asian martial arts. They have often functioned as a contact point with Buddhism, and contributed to a broader sacralisation of bodily exercises. However, few studies of them have been produced by scholars of religion. To analyse martial arts spirituality as a form of lived religion, participant observation, and interviews are necessary. Mapping the milieu through large-scale surveys is also important, as is analysing books, leaflets, and websites produced by participants. The broader popular culture that martial arts are embedded in constitutes a significant context, as does the discourse on martial arts in newspapers. Martial arts spirituality can be analysed as a sub-field of the new age/holistic/alternative spirituality milieu and need to be related to local processes of secularisation. As martial arts are products of dynamic borrowing between “East” and “West”, global history provides a further useful lens.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2024
Series
Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society, ISSN 2198-5235 ; 29
Keywords
Martial arts, budo, Japan, spirituality, religion, kampsport, budo, Japan, andlighet, religion
National Category
History of Religions
Research subject
Historical Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-56077 (URN)10.30965/9783657794669_025 (DOI)978-3-657-79466-9 (ISBN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2022-02594_VR
Available from: 2025-01-09 Created: 2025-01-09 Last updated: 2025-01-09Bibliographically approved
Faxneld, P., Plank, K. & Nilsson, J. (2024). Sweden. In: Laurence Cox; Ugo Dessì; Lukas K. Pokorny (Ed.), East Asian Religiosities in the European Union: (pp. 321-341). Paderborn: Brill Academic Publishers
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2024 (English)In: East Asian Religiosities in the European Union / [ed] Laurence Cox; Ugo Dessì; Lukas K. Pokorny, Paderborn: Brill Academic Publishers, 2024, p. 321-341Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Cultural exchange between Sweden and East Asia began in earnest with the establishment of the Swedish East India Company in 1731. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Swedish missionary movement and Theosophy constituted important contexts for the way in which Swedes engaged with East Asian religious traditions. Today, Buddhism is relatively well-established, and the umbrella organisation The Swedish Buddhist Community serves more than 11,000 individuals. Several practices related to spirituality and alternative medicine with a connection to East Asia are widespread, including Traditional Chinese Medicine (primarily acupuncture), qigong and reiki-healing. Concepts like qi/ki also play a role in several systems of martial arts. Research on alternative spirituality is strong in Sweden, and some of these practices have been mapped from this perspective. However, scholarship on East Asian diasporic communities is limited.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Paderborn: Brill Academic Publishers, 2024
Series
Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society, ISSN 2198-5235 ; 29
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Historical Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-56079 (URN)10.30965/9783657794669_021 (DOI)9783657794669 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-01-09 Created: 2025-01-09 Last updated: 2025-01-13Bibliographically approved
Faxneld, P. (2023). Teosofin och den svenska sekelskifteskonsten (1ed.). In: Anneli Strömberg, Hannes Trygg, Maria Hellstadius Wiberg (Ed.), Maja Fjaestad: Att se på världen med konstnärsögon (pp. 100-107). Arvika: Votum
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Teosofin och den svenska sekelskifteskonsten
2023 (Swedish)In: Maja Fjaestad: Att se på världen med konstnärsögon / [ed] Anneli Strömberg, Hannes Trygg, Maria Hellstadius Wiberg, Arvika: Votum , 2023, 1, p. 100-107Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Arvika: Votum, 2023 Edition: 1
Keywords
Teosofi, esoterism, konst
National Category
History of Religions
Research subject
Historical Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51597 (URN)9789189021877 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-06-02 Created: 2023-06-02 Last updated: 2023-06-07Bibliographically approved
Faxneld, P. (2022). An Occult Soothsayer and Prophet. In: Sasha Chaitow: Son of Prometheus: The Life and Work of Joséphin Péladan (pp. 19-22). Munich: Theion Publishing
Open this publication in new window or tab >>An Occult Soothsayer and Prophet
2022 (English)In: Sasha Chaitow: Son of Prometheus: The Life and Work of Joséphin Péladan, Munich: Theion Publishing , 2022, p. 19-22Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Munich: Theion Publishing, 2022
National Category
History of Religions
Research subject
Historical Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50631 (URN)
Available from: 2023-01-13 Created: 2023-01-13 Last updated: 2023-01-13Bibliographically approved
Faxneld, P. (2022). Belials säd: F.W. Murnaus Nosferatu. Aiolos: Tidskrift för litteratur, teori och estetik (74-75), 54-63
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Belials säd: F.W. Murnaus Nosferatu
2022 (Swedish)In: Aiolos: Tidskrift för litteratur, teori och estetik, ISSN 1400-7770, no 74-75, p. 54-63Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Aiolos tidskrift & förlag, 2022
National Category
History of Religions
Research subject
Historical Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50629 (URN)
Available from: 2023-01-13 Created: 2023-01-13 Last updated: 2023-03-22Bibliographically approved
Faxneld, P. (2022). En verkligt modern människa måste vara ockultist: Nobelpriset i litteratur och sekelskiftets ockulta strömningar. In: Jan Gradvall; Clara Åhlvik (Ed.), Evigt liv: (pp. 381-413). Stockholm: Liljevalchs / Nobelmuseet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>En verkligt modern människa måste vara ockultist: Nobelpriset i litteratur och sekelskiftets ockulta strömningar
2022 (Swedish)In: Evigt liv / [ed] Jan Gradvall; Clara Åhlvik, Stockholm: Liljevalchs / Nobelmuseet , 2022, p. 381-413Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Liljevalchs / Nobelmuseet, 2022
National Category
History of Religions
Research subject
Historical Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50632 (URN)978-91-52738-26-9 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-01-13 Created: 2023-01-13 Last updated: 2023-01-13Bibliographically approved
Faxneld, P. (2022). Hädelse och hysteri.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hädelse och hysteri
2022 (Swedish)Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Series
Svensk filmdatabas
National Category
History of Religions
Research subject
Historical Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50630 (URN)
Available from: 2023-01-13 Created: 2023-01-13 Last updated: 2023-01-13Bibliographically approved
Faxneld, P. (2022). Of Portals and Portentous Powers: The Art of Fosco Culto. In: Kazim (Ed.), The Art of Fosco Culto: (pp. 37-156). Paris: Hexen Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Of Portals and Portentous Powers: The Art of Fosco Culto
2022 (English)In: The Art of Fosco Culto / [ed] Kazim, Paris: Hexen Press , 2022, p. 37-156Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Paris: Hexen Press, 2022
National Category
History of Religions
Research subject
Historical Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50633 (URN)
Available from: 2023-01-13 Created: 2023-01-13 Last updated: 2023-01-13Bibliographically approved
Faxneld, P. (2022). Valand: Tidskapsel och fristad. In: Joel Johansson (Ed.), Vasastan: En urban hembygd (pp. 121-129). Stockholm: Balkong förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Valand: Tidskapsel och fristad
2022 (Swedish)In: Vasastan: En urban hembygd / [ed] Joel Johansson, Stockholm: Balkong förlag, 2022, p. 121-129Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Balkong förlag, 2022
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50628 (URN)9789187553448 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-01-13 Created: 2023-01-13 Last updated: 2023-01-13Bibliographically approved
Projects
The neglected masculine side of new age: "Eastern" spirituality in martial arts [2022-02594_VR]; Södertörn University; Publications
Faxneld, P. (2024). Crouching Secularity, Hidden Religion: Some Reflections on Studying East Asian Martial Arts in the EU. In: Lukas Pokorny, Laurence Cox, Lionel Obadia, Ugo Dessì (Ed.), Exploring East Asian Religions in the EU: (pp. 395-414). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers
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