Angel Spirituality in the World’s Happiest Country: The Attraction of Lorna Byrne among Finnish Women
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...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2020
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Journal of religion in Europe
Jahr: 2020, Band: 13, Heft: 3/4, Seiten: 351-379 |
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Lived Religion
B angel belief B New Spirituality B Finnish women B Lorna Byrne |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-20211482 |