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 conceived along...
| Published in: | Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2011]
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Religions
Year: 2011, Volume: 2, Issue: 4, Pages: 566-589 |
| Further subjects: | B
healing groups
B Finland B Lament B cultural revivalism B authenticity and the “age of authenticity” |
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| Summary: | 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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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel2040566 |