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Symbols of community: the cultural system of a Swedish church
In: The anthropology of form and meaning
Enacting Culture: The Case of Depictions
In: Current anthropology, Band 62, Heft 4, S. 426-451
ISSN: 1537-5382
Force of Habit: Exploring Everyday Culture
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 99, Heft 3, S. 668-669
ISSN: 1548-1433
Force of Habit: Exploring Everyday Culture. Jonas Frykman and Orvar Lofgren. eds. Lund Studies in European Ethnology, 1. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1996. 172 pp.
GENERAL/THEORETICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Best Laid Schemes: The Psychology of Emotions. Keith Oatley
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 95, Heft 2, S. 453-454
ISSN: 1548-1433
Cooperative individualism in Swedish society
In: Ethnos, Band 56, Heft 3-4, S. 153-164
ISSN: 1469-588X
Ideological Language in the Transformation of Identity
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 92, Heft 1, S. 42-56
ISSN: 1548-1433
Christians who have undergone conversion experiences usually claim that the experience has not only strengthened their religious commitment, it has in addition transformed their lives. The idea that a person may be transformed through using a set of symbols (called an "ideology" here) is not limited to Christianity; many ideologies make similar claims. Using the example of the conversion experience, I argue that ideologies may indeed create a sense of self‐transformation in the subject. This sense arises out of the fact that the subject is able to use the ideological language to resolve enduring problems of meaning in his or her life. Such problems are not, however, resolved once and for all; rather, the discourse of informants reveals that self‐transformation is an ongoing process wherein ideological language is used to express and come to terms with persisting emotional ambivalence.
An anthropological approach to a Swedish popular movement
In: Ethnos, Band 48, Heft 1-2, S. 69-84
ISSN: 1469-588X
Language and Self-Transformation: A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 757
Representation and Reality in the Study of Culture
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 99, Heft 1, S. 123-134
ISSN: 1548-1433
The contemporary debate over the scientific status of ethnographic inquiry is best regarded as a dispute between realist and antirealist treatments of truth and representation. Drawing on some of the work of philosopher Donald Davidson, this essay argues that both treatments are flawed. It concludes that the controversy about cross‐cultural truth claims is misconceived and unproductive when carried out in epistemological terms. In fact, the disagreements are largely moral and political and would be more productively discussed in precisely those terms.
Historical Role Analysis in the Study of Religious Change: Mass Educational Development in Norway, 1740-1891
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 52, Heft 1, S. 126
ISSN: 2325-7873
Symbols of Community: The Cultural System of A Swedish Church
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 382
ISSN: 2325-7873
Symbols of Community: The Cultural System of a Swedish Church
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 22, Heft 3, S. 587