Blar i forfatter "Tøllefsen, Inga Bårdsen"

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    • Between sports and subjective spirituality: Nordic yoga practitioners' perspectives on yoga, religion, and spirituality 

      Tøllefsen, Inga Bårdsen (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-12-09)
      The topic of this dissertation is Nordic yoga practitioners’ perspectives on yoga, religion, and spirituality, based on a questionnaire and interviews. In the monograph I explore who the Nordic yoga respondents are, why they have started (and continued) a yoga practice, and their attitudes and alignment to traditional religion, non-religion and subjective spiritualities. In the contemporary popular ...

    • Conspiracy Theory, Altered States, and Alternative Community: Conspiracy Beliefs in a Sample of Nordic Yoga-Practitioners 

      Dyrendal, Asbjørn; Tøllefsen, Inga Bårdsen (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
      Belief in hidden, intentional agency behind events is fundamentally human. However, the cultural discourses on ‘conspiracy theory’, which has relegated such beliefs to the category of stigmatised knowledge claims of the extreme margins, can mask the ubiquity of such beliefs. Egalitarian, alternative religion therefore has seemed to some a surprising location for conspiracy beliefs. Egil Asprem and ...

    • Ondskapens "pedagogikk" i selvets spiritualitet: Nyreligiøse perspektiver på ondskap og lidelse 

      Tøllefsen, Inga Bårdsen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Ondskap, lidelse og det Â"uønskedeÂ" kan i nyreligiøsiteten fortolkes på flere måter. Denne artikkelen beskriver to nivåer av ondskap og lidelse, et ytre og et indre nivå, hvor det ytre i hovedsak omhandler estetisering av ondskap og populærkulturell ondskapsfascinasjon, i relasjon til Christopher Partridges (2004 og 2005) occulture-begrep. Det indre nivået som behandles i artikkelens andre del ...

    • A study of the Art of Living Foundation 

      Tøllefsen, Inga Bårdsen (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-05-22)
      The focus of this thesis is the Art of Living Foundation (AoL), a splinter group from Transcendental Meditation (TM). My primary goal is to present a systematic overview of this large but understudied movement. Over the course of this overview, I examine AoL through a variety of different interpretive frameworks. Throughout the thesis I inspect Art of Living through several different lenses: an ...