Nordic Animism

Nordic Animism

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Nordic Animism episodes

  • Ancestors III
    Ancestors as 'others' in the criticial sense: L.P. Hartley once wrote 'The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.' Rune discusses how animist ansestry has little, even nothing, to do with 'race' and much more to do with mutal actualisation. 

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    21 min
  • Alu 2
    Rune discusses the suprising relationship between alu (ale) and witch hunts, and reveals interesting aspects about pre-modern ideas of and ideals about gender.

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    30 min
  • All Souls Day
    Rune discusses the living animist strands found within All Souls' Day, also known as the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed and the Day of the Dead. 

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    19 min
  • A Viking Take on White Guilt
    Concepts of race are mutable and have changed greatly over time. Rune examines pre-modernist concepts of race in the context of current day concerns. 

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    17 min

About Nordic Animism

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NORDIC ANIMISM IS A PODCAST and PROJECT HELMED BY RUNE HJARNØ RASMUSSEN. Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is an historian of religion, Ph.d., educated from the Universities of Uppsala and Copenhagen.Rune has…