Johan Nilsson

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• 2024

  An Exoticism of Rationality and Social Order? Examining the East-West Binary in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Esoteric Representations of China

  Nilsson, J., 2024, Appropriating the Dao: The Euro-American Esoteric Reception of China. Pokorny, L. K. & Winter, F. (eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, p. 145–162

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Manipulating the Sticks: Reconstructing Aleister Crowley’s Use of Yijing Divination

  Nilsson, J., 2024, Handbook of Rituals in Contemporary Studies of Religion: Exploring Ritual Creativity in the Footsteps of Anne-Christine Hornborg. Brissman, I., Linjamaa, P. & Thykier Makeeff, T. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 135–147 (Brill Handbook on Contemporary Religion; vol. 22).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

• Sweden

  Faxneld, P., Plank, K. & Nilsson, J., 2024, East Asian Religiosities in the European Union: Globalisation, Migration, and Hybridity . Cox, L., Dessì, U. & Pokorny, L. K. (eds.). Brill, p. 321–344 24 p. (Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society; vol. 29).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Turning further East: C.H.A. Bjerregaard and the esoteric enthusiasm for Daoism

  Nilsson, J., 2024, Appropriating the Dao: The Euro-American Esoteric Reception of China. Pokorny, L. K. & Winter, F. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 109-124

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Enthusiasm 100%
  • Esoteric 100%
  • Daoism 100%
  • Early Twentieth-century 66%
  • Religion 50%

• What about fields and cows? Theosophy, life reform and the concept of natural living

  Nilsson, J., 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

  Open Access

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• 2023

  Aleister Crowley, "Hymn to Lucifer" (undated) and The Book of Thoth (1944)

  Nilsson, J., 2023, Satanism: A Reader. Faxneld, P. & Nilsson, J. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 153-173 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Hymn 100%
  • Thoth 100%
  • DEVil 100%
  • Aleister Crowley 100%
  • humankind 40%

• Ben Kadosh (aka Carl William Hansen), Den ny morgens gry (1906)

  Nilsson, J., 2023, Satanism: A Reader. Faxneld, P. & Nilsson, J. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 122-134 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Occult 100%
  • Amount 50%
  • Force 50%
  • Labour 50%
  • Literature 50%

• Introduction

  Faxneld, P. & Nilsson, J., 2023, Satanism: A Reader. Faxneld, P. & Nilsson, J. (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 1-23 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Introduction 100%
  • Satanism 100%
  • Time 50%
  • Process 50%
  • Case Study 50%

• Kenneth Grant (Typhonian Order), "Vinum Sabbati" (1961)

  Nilsson, J., 2023, Satanism: A Reader. Faxneld, P. & Nilsson, J. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 174-186 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Sabbath 100%
  • Texts 50%
  • Deity 33%
  • Ceremony 33%
  • Witches 33%

• Satanism: A Reader

  Faxneld, P. (Editor) & Nilsson, J. (Editor), 2023, Oxford University Press. 360 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology (editor) › Research › peer-review

  • Reader 100%
  • Satanism 100%
  • Source text 66%
  • accusations 33%
  • Atom 16%

• Starving the Animal Within: Vegetarianism as Spiritual Development and Eastern Wisdom in Early Swedish Theosophy

  Nilsson, J., 2023, Eastern Practices and Nordic Bodies: Lived Religion, Spirituality and Healing in the Nordic Countries. Plank, K. & Enstedt, D. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 277-294 (Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Wisdom 100%
  • Theosophy 100%
  • Economic and Social Development 100%
  • Swedish 100%
  • Movement 75%

• The Satanic Reds, "FAQ for Satanic Reds - Social Realist Organization" (circa 2001)

  Nilsson, J., 2023, Satanism: A Reader. Faxneld, P. & Nilsson, J. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 285-305 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Red 100%
  • Texts 40%
  • DEVil 40%
  • Discourse 20%
  • Audience 20%

• “If the Kingdom be Ruled According to the Tao”: Politics as “Eastern Wisdom” in Aleister Crowley’s Reception of the Daodejing

  Nilsson, J., 2023, In: Numen. 71, 1, p. 94-109 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Kingdom 100%
  • Esoteric 100%
  • Wisdom 100%
  • Tao 100%
  • Daodejing 100%
• 2021

  Kunglig förening: Den teosofiska raja yoga-pedagogiken och det tidiga 1900-talets yogareception

  Nilsson, J., 2021, In: AURA - Tidsskrift for akademiske studier av nyreligiøsitet. 12, p. 25-40 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2020

  As a Fire Beneath the Ashes: The Quest for Chinese Wisdom within Occultism, 1850-1949.

  Nilsson, J., 2020 Jan 31, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University. 303 p.

  Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis (monograph)

• Astralkroppar i partiets tjänst: Teosofi och buddhism i Kata Dalströms socialdemokrati

  Nilsson, J., 2020, Religion, 3, 1, p. 20-25.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper › Specialist publication article › Popular science

  Open Access
• 2019

  Fill me the Cup of the Poppy Circean! Opium Literature and the Sacralization of Intoxicants in Turn of the Century Occultism

  Nilsson, J., 2019.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2018

  Orgier, kannibalism och hädiska riter: den svarta mässan från antiken till idag

  Linjamaa, P. & Nilsson, J., 2018 Aug, Religion, 1, 1, p. 4-9.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper › Specialist publication article › Popular science
• 2015

  Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics

  Nilsson, J., 2015, In: Nova Religio. 18, 3, p. 140-141

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)
• 2013

  Defending Paper Gods: Aleister Crowley and the Reception of Daoism in Early Twentieth Century Esotericism

  Nilsson, J., 2013, In: Correspondences. 1.1, p. 103-127

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Aleister Crowley 100%
  • Daodejing 33%
  • Christian missionaries 33%
  • Western esotericism 33%
  • Laozi 33%
  695 Downloads (Pure)
• 2010

  En invasion av verkligheten

  Nilsson, J., 2010, Förborgade tecken: Esoterism i västerländsk litteratur. Faxneld, P. & Fyhr, M. (eds.). Umeå: h:ström - Text & Kultur, (Serie akademi).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Popular science