Nordic Animism | A Conversation with Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen

Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is a Historian of Religion, Ph.d from Uppsala University in Sweden. His research into Afro-diasporic strategies for maintaining animist reality in the modern world has led him towards reading North European cultural history from the perspective of rejected animist knowledge and practice. The objective is to recover Euro-traditional forms of land connectedness, ecological knowledge, and kinship with the greater community of beings.

Rune has lived in a number of countries in Europe, Africa North- and South America and presently runs the platform “Nordic Animism”. https://nordicanimism.com/ 

Topics:

0:00 – Introduction

2:39 – Christianity and Animism

5:13 – Heart of Nordic Animism

10:05 – Decolonization

12:39 – Animism in Academia

14:44 – Universal Animism

17:50 – Bio-ancestry

23:18 – Animism as a Spiritual Practice

41:50 – Animism and Societal Problems

48:00 – Animism and Trauma

55:24 – Getting Started with Animism 

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