IJAPS Series for South Asia | Taking India to Market: Retail Revolution and Consumer Culture

Zulkifli Musa Published: Categories: English

IJAPS Series for South Asia Taking India to Market Retail Revolution and Consumer Culture In the wake of India’s 1991 economic reforms, trade barriers were lowered and state regulation policies with regard to industrial production and foreign direct investment were significantly liberalized. India transitioned from a state-centric to a market-oriented model of development. Subsequent reforms … Continue reading →

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Contemplating the Robotic Embrace

NatureCulture Published: Categories: English

Introspection for Affective Anthropology by Daniel White (Free University of Berlin) daniel.white@fu-berlin.de June 20, 2018 The first time I held a robot in my arms I was overcome with a wave of sympathy. Pepper had arrived in our laboratory in a larg…

From Mad Cows to Posthumanism

NatureCulture Published: Categories: English

Alan Smart (University of Calgary): “Posthumanism, as I use the term, means the ways in which we are entangled with non-humans, and which expand our capacities (although in other ways they may diminish them, as with disease).  Rather than being a featu…

Putting the spiritual into practice

Irene Stengs Published: Categories: English

The aim of this article is to examine how Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophical ideas were reflected and put into practice in the lives of the Finnish couple Olly (Olga) Donner (1881–1956, neé Sinebrychoff) and Uno Donner (1872–1958). They enco…

A relation of Swedenborgianism and anthroposophy

Tiina Mahlamäki Published: Categories: English

My article discusses the influence of Emanuel- Swedenborg on a Finnish female author, Kersti Bergroth (1886–1975) through one of Bergroth’s novels Eläviä ja kuolleita (‘The Living and the Dead’, 1945). Bergroth was a prolific author wi…

‘The one and only true and salvational faith’

Irene Stengs Published: Categories: English

In the 1880s, the religious life in Finland was in the midst of a turbulent period which, for some, presented a threat to traditional moral values and social cohesion while for others it was the beginning of a new, more liberal era. Du…

Esotericism in reverse

Irene Stengs Published: Categories: English

Western esotericism appears to be a field most precarious in terms of positioning. This article will highlight the divide between ‘critics’ and ‘religionists’ from a pre-Enlightenment position by discussing René Descartes’ role within esote…