Artists as truth-seekers: Focusing on agency and seekership in the study of art and occulture

This article focuses on the concept of the seeker and considers how the analytical tool of seekership, defined and developed in the sociology of religion, could be applied to the study of art and esotericism. The theoretical argument is made more tangible with the example of the Finnish artist Aksel...

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Main Author: Kokkinen, Nina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2021]
In: Approaching religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 4-27
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Gallen-Kallela, Akseli 1865-1931 / Artist / Spirituality / Truth / Search for
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia
Further subjects:B Occulture
B Spirituality
B Esotericism
B New Age
B fin-de-siécle art
B seekership
B Akseli Gallen-Kallela
B sociology of religion
B Seekers
B Occultism
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