Sacred Psychotherapy in the "Age of Authenticity": Healing and Cultural Revivalism in Contemporary Finland
Like other European countries, contemporary Finland has witnessed an explosion of healing modalities designatable as "New Age" (though not without profound controversy, [1]). This paper focuses on Finnish courses in lament (wept song, tuneful weeping with words) that combine healing concei...
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ftnortharizonaun:oai:openknowledge.nau.edu:1822 2023-05-15T17:00:06+02:00 Sacred Psychotherapy in the "Age of Authenticity": Healing and Cultural Revivalism in Contemporary Finland Wilce, James M. 2011 text http://openknowledge.nau.edu/1822/ http://openknowledge.nau.edu/1822/1/Wilce_JM_2011_Sacred_psychotherapy_age_authenticity_healing_cultural.pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/rel2040566 en eng http://openknowledge.nau.edu/1822/1/Wilce_JM_2011_Sacred_psychotherapy_age_authenticity_healing_cultural.pdf Wilce, James M. (2011) Sacred Psychotherapy in the "Age of Authenticity": Healing and Cultural Revivalism in Contemporary Finland. Religions, 2 (4). pp. 566-589. ISSN 2077-1444 cc_by CC-BY BL Religion R Medicine (General) Article PeerReviewed 2011 ftnortharizonaun https://doi.org/10.3390/rel2040566 2020-12-11T11:44:04Z Like other European countries, contemporary Finland has witnessed an explosion of healing modalities designatable as "New Age" (though not without profound controversy, [1]). This paper focuses on Finnish courses in lament (wept song, tuneful weeping with words) that combine healing conceived along psychotherapeutic lines and lessons from the lament tradition of rural Karelia, a region some Finns regard as their cultural heartland. A primary goal of the paper is to explicate a concept of "authenticity" emerging in lament courses, in which disclosing the depths of one's feelings is supported not only by invoking "psy-" discourses of self-help, but also by construing the genuine emotional self-disclosure that characterizes neolamentation as a sacred activity and a vital contribution to the welfare of the Finnish people. Article in Journal/Newspaper karelia* OpenKnowledge@NAU (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff) Religions 2 4 566 589 |
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Like other European countries, contemporary Finland has witnessed an explosion of healing modalities designatable as "New Age" (though not without profound controversy, [1]). This paper focuses on Finnish courses in lament (wept song, tuneful weeping with words) that combine healing conceived along psychotherapeutic lines and lessons from the lament tradition of rural Karelia, a region some Finns regard as their cultural heartland. A primary goal of the paper is to explicate a concept of "authenticity" emerging in lament courses, in which disclosing the depths of one's feelings is supported not only by invoking "psy-" discourses of self-help, but also by construing the genuine emotional self-disclosure that characterizes neolamentation as a sacred activity and a vital contribution to the welfare of the Finnish people. |
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