Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• von Schnurbein, Stefanie

Titel

Asatru – An Academic Religion?

Ist Teil von

• Norse Revival, 2016, Vol.5, p.251-297

Ort / Verlag

United States: BRILL

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The relation between Germanic Neopaganism and academia is highly ambiguous.While knowledge of primary sources as well as academic theory plays a foundational role for a-racist and many ethnicist Asatruers, the majority of these Heathens have little first-hand knowledge of those sources and the Old Norse or Latin languages that they are written in. Their knowledge comes mostly from fictional literature,¹ Neopagan popular interpretations, and other popularized accounts of Norse mythology, as well as from Internet sources.² Asatruers who are able to cite sources and discuss academic theories about them are imbued with considerable symbolic capital within the Asatru community. Most