Nordic Animism

By: Rune Rasmussen
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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 lived in many countries and done fieldwork in a number of contemporary (primarily Afro-descendant) religions, but since childhood he has been strongly interested in Nordic religion.


    Today Rune is working on applying contemporary developments in anthropology to rethink the way we address Nordic religion, both in terms of scholarship, and also as a reservoir of cultural knowledge for environmental activism.


    Follow Rune's work and buy products including the Nordic Animist Calendar at https://nordicanimism.com. Support Rune's work and gain access to exclusive content and previews at https://www.patreon.com › nordicanimism. Much, but not all, of this content consists of the audio of Rune's youtube videos, found at https://www.youtube.com/user/Runehr. Rune is planning to produce more podcast specific content going forwards.


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  • Singing Traditions in Northern Europe

    Singing Traditions in Northern Europe
    Sep 11 2024

    Singing Traditions in Northern Europe

    Interview with Danica Boyce


    The Fair Folk Podcast's Danica Boyce joins in to talk about singing traditions across northern Europe as well as the connection between singing, animism and ritual.


    https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr


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    Find Danica Boyce and The Fair Folk Podcast on your pod-catcher app and learn more about and maybe support her work at https://www.patreon.com/fairfolkcast


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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • How A Viking Fire Ritual Can Connect Us to Land

    How A Viking Fire Ritual Can Connect Us to Land
    Sep 4 2024

    Fire spirits are a universal feature of animist cultures. Today Rune talks about the roles of ritual for the uses and applications of fire in Nordic cultures, and fire in ritual.


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    18 mins
  • Folk Schools

    Folk Schools
    Aug 21 2024

    Rune discusses the history of Nordic Folk Schools, and how their approach was used to counter classism and other forms of social discrimination.


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    22 mins
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Fascinating! Practical & thought-provoking

An engaging thought experiment! Humans need ritual and meaningful narrative to enable healing of our personal and societal hurts. Most of us are not getting this from our immediate family traditions. Rune shows an impressively broad knowledge of world culture and societal illness, and suggests some practical approaches.

Can we find useful tales in our (authentic) Nordic past to guide us today? Can we work together to create new meaningful rituals to sustain us in our troubled times? The answer is Yes. His analysis is engaging and open-minded. No ranting, no propaganda. Inclusive, not extremist, views.

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