ONLINE COURSE
What is Animism? - Where do we see it in history? What does it mean that the world is animate and how come that Animism is decolonial? The course contains four lectures giving you the Basics of Animism.
High-level
The course combines the cutting edge of Animist scholarship with Nordic folklore and history of religions. This will give you a basic introduction to Animism.
Animist
We will go through the foundations of Animism, what is Animism, how is it practiced, what are spirits - and why is it decolonial.
Academic
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Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
Historian of Religion, Ph.d., educated from the Universities of Uppsala and Copenhagen.
Rune has lived in many countries and done fieldwork in a number of contemporary (primarily Afro-descendant) religions, but since childhood he has had Nordic religion as a strong field of interest.
Today Rune is working on applying contemporary developments in anthropology to rethink the way we address Nordic religion both in terms of scholarship, but also as a reservoir of cultural knowledge for environmental activism and sustainability sensitization.