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- Faxneld, Per, 1978-
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"Intuitive, receptive, dark": Negotiations of femininity in the contemporary Satanic and Left-hand Path milieu
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Ingår i: International Journal for the Study of New Religions. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2041-9511 .- 2041-952X. ; 4:2, s. 201-230
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article discusses some of the debates over the construction of gender taking place in the satanic and Left-hand Path (LHP) milieu, in particular the different varieties of upvaluing of “the feminine.” This includes disputes over what the term feminism entails, what the best strategies for women to gain more power are, and if “feminine” is an essence that can be contrasted with a fixed “masculine.”Notions of gender polarity as necessary for magical practice or cosmic balance are given special attention, as are borrowings from feminist terminology (e.g. “patriar- chy”) by figures that are far from feminist in orientation. Aside from tex- tual sources, the article draws on communication with 44 informants. Three basic approaches to gender can be discerned in the milieu: 1) Gender as an insignificant category, 2) Gender as a natural polarity, 3) Gender as false consciousness. Of these, number two is the most common, while number one is quite seldom seen—gender is a major issue, one way or another. Femininity is frequently discussed by both men and women, while masculinity is a less popular topic. Femininity, then, is a particularly contested matter in the milieu.Overall, the dominant view of gender is that the two sexes should be strictly dichotomized. The article concludes that with some exceptions most organizations in the milieu are numerically dominated by men. However, some important groups have periodically been led by women, and there are several female key producers of ideology. The partly reactionary views concerning gender issues held by some female leaders indicate that female leadership does not necessitate that a conventional feminism would permeate the organization. Further, it is difficult to see any absolute correlation between female leadership and upvaluing of the feminine in mythology. Moreover, the article demonstrates, such upvaluing does not in itself always signify an underlying ideology of political feminism.
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- Faxneld, Per, 1978-
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Mörkrets apostlar : satanism i äldre tid
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A study of which types of Satanism were present before the founding of the Church of Satan in 1966. The conclusion is that very few individuals or organisations prior to 1966 could reasonably be labelled Satanists, but that a few examples can in fact be found, and that some of these should be considered important for the development of the forms of Satanism that we can observe today.
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The Devil’s Party : Satanism in Modernity
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent years have seen a significant shift in the study of new religious movements. In Satanism studies, interest has moved to anthropological and historical work on groups and inviduals. Self-declared Satanism, especially as a religion with cultural production and consumption, history, and organization, has largely been neglected by academia. This volume, focused on modern Satanism as a practiced religion of life-style, attempts to reverse that trend with 12 cutting-edge essays from the emerging field of Satanism studies. Topics covered range from early literary Satanists like Blake and Shelley, to the Californian Church of Satan of the 1960s, to the radical developments that have taken place in the Satanic milieu in recent decades. The contributors analyze such phenomena as conversion to Satanism, connections between Satanism and political violence, 19th-century decadent Satanism, transgression, conspiracy theory, and the construction of Satanic scripture. A wide array of methods are employed to shed light on the Devil's disciples: statistical surveys, anthropological field studies, philological examination of The Satanic Bible, contextual analysis of literary texts, careful scrutiny of obscure historical records, and close readings of key Satanic writings. The book will be an invaluable resource for everyone interested in Satanism as a philosophical or religious position of alterity rather than as an imagined other.
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- Faxneld, Per, 1978-, et al.
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Om ondskans undflyende natur
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Ingår i: DIN: Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. - Oslo : Novus Forlag. - 1501-9934 .- 2387-6735. ; 17:1, s. 7-11
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- Faxneld, Per, 1978-
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Satanic feminism : Lucifer as the liberator of woman in nineteenth-century culture
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan’s advice to eat of the forbidden fruit. The notion of woman as the Devil’s accomplice is prominent throughout the history of Christianity and has been used to legitimate the subordination of wives and daughters. During the nineteenth century, rebellious females performed counter-readings of this misogynist tradition. Hereby, Lucifer was reconceptualized as a feminist liberator of womankind, and Eve became a heroine. In these reimaginings, Satan is an ally in the struggle against a patriarchy supported by God the Father and his male priests. The book delineates how such Satanic feminism is expressed in a number of nineteenth-century esoteric works, literary texts, autobiographies, pamphlets and journals, newspaper articles, paintings, sculptures, and even artefacts of consumer culture such as jewellery. The analysis focuses on interfaces between esotericism, literature, art, and the political realm. New light is thus shed on neglected aspects of the intellectual history of feminism, Satanism, and revisionary mythmaking. The scope of the study makes it valuable not only for historians of religion but also for those with a general interest in cultural history (or specific aspects of it like gender history, romanticism, or decadent-symbolist art and literature).
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- Faxneld, Per, 1978-
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Den politiska satanismens tidiga historia
- 2009
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Detta paper belyser hur brittiska romantiker nyttjade Satan som en positiv symbol i politiska syften, och hur denna strategi vidareutvecklades av anarkister som Proudhon och Bakunin samt även inom den tidiga svenska socialdemokratin. Ett resonemang förs även om vilka orsakerna kan vara till att i övrigt benhårda ateister uppfattar Satan som en användbar och tilltalande symbol.
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