Papers by Jone Salomonsen
Routledge eBooks, Jan 31, 2002
Bloomsbury eBooks, Oct 1, 2020
democracy: Democracy and hospitality in times of crisis Agnes Czajka 37 Part 2 Reassembling commu... more democracy: Democracy and hospitality in times of crisis Agnes Czajka 37 Part 2 Reassembling communities 3 Enchanting democracy: Facing the past in Mongolian shamanic rituals Gregory Delaplace 53 4 Indigenous rituals remake the larger-than-human community Graham Harvey 69 5 Becoming autonomous together: Distanced intimacy in dances of self-discovery Michael Houseman 87 6 Walking pilgrimages to the Marian Shrine of Fátima in Portugal as democratic explorations Anna Fedele 7 The interreligious Choir of Civilizations: Representations of democracy and the ritual assembly of multiculturalism in Antakya, Turkey Jens Kreinath Part 3 Commemoration and resistance 8 The ritual powers of the weak: Democracy and public responses to the 22 July 2011 terrorist attacks on Norway Jone Salomonsen 9 The flower actions: Interreligious funerals after the Utøya massacre Ida Marie Høeg 9781350123014_txt_print.indd 5 28-07-2020
The Pomegranate, May 1, 1999
The community I came to study was the Reclaiming Collective of San Francisco, a well-known femini... more The community I came to study was the Reclaiming Collective of San Francisco, a well-known feminist Witchcraft community founded in 1979 by Starhawk and her coven sisters .
Dialog-a Journal of Theology, Jun 1, 2021
The intellectual distinction between Jews and Gentiles, Christians and Pagans is a division betwe... more The intellectual distinction between Jews and Gentiles, Christians and Pagans is a division between true and false religion. Danish theologian N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) refuted this binary when he "matchlessly discovered" that pagan simply denotes a natural, pre-Christian human, created in the image of God. Inborn and cultured spirits of life simply convey a people's "Old Testament," which may also be treasured as independent sources of pride, cultural knowledge, community, and historicity. In this article, I approach Grundtvig's discovery as method, and discuss its potential to teach a climate sensitive age kinship with a particular linage of dwellers (nomads, peasants, Sami, Vikings, moderns), a specific landscape, and with spirit as breath and sensory belonging to a larger-than-human community. It will include a brief reflection on how native Christian scholars treat this problematic, how gendered rereadings of Norse mythology may still enlighten the present, and how new ecological concerns about deep entanglements may open Norwegian memory to its first migrants: nomadic hunters and gatherers. K E Y W O R D S animism, eco-spirituality, Grundtvig, Norse mythology, Old testaments of the peoples, paganism, Scandinavian creation theology This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Dialog-a Journal of Theology, Sep 1, 2015
On the afternoon of July 22, 2011, a white Norwegian killed seventy-seven people in and around Os... more On the afternoon of July 22, 2011, a white Norwegian killed seventy-seven people in and around Oslo. A majority of those killed where Social Democratic youth, camping on the island of Utøya. Dressed as a Norwegian policeman, Anders Behring Breivik took the ferry over to the island and shot sixty-nine children with a pistol and a semi-automatic gun. The weapons were carved with Rune names and dedicated to Thor and Odin, the war gods in Norse mythology. About ninety minutes before the attacks, Breivik had published a 1,500-page manifesto on the Internet, urging radical nationalists in Europe to defend Christianity by fighting back Islamic migration, multiculturalism, and feminism. I propose to analyze how a new project linking "Christian and pagan" was launched through the Oslo massacres. I also make a distinction between the sacrificial aspects of a bloody massacre, and the nonbloody acts of love that manifested among surviving youth at Utøya, and ask if these contrary acts express, or at least involve, two radically different ways of doing religion.
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht eBooks, Apr 23, 2007
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Norsk teologisk tidsskrift, Sep 22, 2003
Norsk teologisk tidsskrift, May 22, 2003
Women's ritualizing, liturgy and worship is a new interdisciplinary field engaging femini... more Women's ritualizing, liturgy and worship is a new interdisciplinary field engaging feminist theologians, historians and sociologists. Although several illuminating monographs have appeared, scholars seem to struggle with methodology and with developing fruitful theoretical models and conceptual frameworks that are congenial with the study material itself. By using the «Uppsala school» as her main reference, the author discusses the shortcomings of a mainly deductive analytic approach, i.e., the application of preselected theoretical frameworks to a number of different cases, as well as the limitations of having to choose between so-called constructionist and essentialist gender theories. Alternatively, the author argues for an inductive, multi-level analytic approach, and presents four main theoretical programs and feminist schools as relevant for the study of feminist liturgy and ritualizing women.
BRILL eBooks, 2009
This chapter describes a particular ritual in Reclaiming, namely the infamous rite of Initiation,... more This chapter describes a particular ritual in Reclaiming, namely the infamous rite of Initiation, and discusses how this rite essentially is perceived as tsacred workt to help remould the isolated tIt into a new becoming. The ritual process attempts at destabilizing the Western theory of subjectivity as alienation and never-successful re-connection. As such, it rehearses a performative structure of sociability that intrinsically is non-sacrificial, thus welcoming the perception of the smallest feast possible as the conscious meeting and greeting between two. The chapter then discusses how a feminist version of contemporary, neopagan Witchcraft can add to the gendered field of religion and the environment as well as to feminist ritualizing in general precisely by reworking the concept and practice of initiation. Keywords: feminist; neopagan Witchcraft
This is the first major study of the most famous Reclaiming Witch community, founded in 1979 in S... more This is the first major study of the most famous Reclaiming Witch community, founded in 1979 in San Francisco, written by an author who herself participated in a coven for ten years. Jone Salomonsen describes and examines the communal and ritual practices of Reclaiming, asking how these promote personal growth and cultural-religious change.
Dialog-a Journal of Theology, Apr 7, 2021
The Pomegranate, Feb 1, 2002
A substantial piece of Reclaiming's initiation rite is inherted from the more ceremonial Witc... more A substantial piece of Reclaiming's initiation rite is inherted from the more ceremonial Witchcraft traditions and from privileged men's secret societies at the turn of the 20th century. These traditions have all made the 'dying and rising god' theme central to the rite.
Equinox Publishing Ltd. eBooks, Sep 1, 2020
Ritual and Democracy explores the complex intersections of ritual and democracy in a range of con... more Ritual and Democracy explores the complex intersections of ritual and democracy in a range of contemporary, cultural and geographic contexts. This transdisciplinary and theoretically innovative volume emerged out of a workshop held at the Open University in London, organized as part of the international research project, “Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource”, funded by the Norwegian Research Council and led by Jone Salomonsen. The seven research-led chapters presented here document entanglements of the religious and the secular in political assembly and iconoclastic protest, of affect and belonging in pilgrimage and church ritual, and politics and identity in performances of self and culture. Across the essays emerges a conception of ritual less as scripts for generating stability than as improvisational spaces and as catalysts for change.
Explores diverse ritual practices and events in relation to democratic processes including partic... more Explores diverse ritual practices and events in relation to democratic processes including participation, resistance and/or involvement with the larger than human world
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Papers by Jone Salomonsen