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I am Professor Emerita in History of Religions Lund University. My thesis A Landscape of Left-Overs: Changing Conceptions of Place and Environment among Mi’kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada (2001), is grounded on extensive field work, conducted in 1992-1993, 1996 and 2000. I have published several articles about indigenous cosmologies, animism, the phenomenology of landscape, the anthropologist in field, ecology and religion, ritual practices and new spirituality. I have also carried out field work in Tonga in 1998 and 2001, in the Peruvian Andes and the Amazon in 2004 and I revisited Mi’kmaq at Cape Breton in 2009.
In recent years, I have applied theories and methods from ritual studies and anthropology in a productive way by studying new ritual contexts in late modern Sweden. My discussions on ritualization and ritual practices, neospiritual therapy and coaching in contemporary Swedish society, has also attracted the attention in a wider public.
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I am Professor in History of Religions Lund University. My thesis A Landscape of Left-Overs: Changing Conceptions of Place and Environment among Mi’kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada (2001), is grounded on extensive field work, conducted in Nova Scotia 1992-1993, 1996 and 2000. I have published several articles about indigenous cosmologies, animism, the phenomenology of landscape, the anthropologist in field, ecology and religion, ritual practices and new spirituality. I have also carried out field work in Tonga in 1998 and 2001, in the Peruvian Andes and the Amazon in 2004 and I revisited Mi’kmaq at Cape Breton in 2009.
In recent years, I have applied theories and methods from ritual studies and anthropology in a productive way by studying new ritual contexts in late modern Sweden. My discussions on ritualization and ritual practices, neospiritual therapy and coaching in contemporary Swedish society, has also attracted the attention in a wider public.
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Books (7)
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2012). Coaching och lekmannaterapi – en modern väckelse. Studier av inter-religiösa relationer, 56. Dialogos.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2008). Mi'kmaq Landscapes : From Animism to Sacred Ecology. Vitality of Indigenous Religions. Routledge.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2008). Mi'kmaq Landscapes: From Animism to Sacred Ecology. Vitality of Indigenous Religions. Ashgate.
- Hornborg, A.-C., Appelros, E. & Röcklinsberg, H. (2007). Din tro eller min? Religionskunskap för gymnasieskolan, Kurs B. Natur och kultur.
- Hornborg, A.-C., Appelros, E. & Röcklinsberg, H. (2006). Din tro eller min? Religionskunskap för gymnasiet kurs 1. Natur och kultur.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2005). Ritualer : teorier och tillämpning. Studentlitteratur AB.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2001). A Landscape of Left-Overs : Changing Conceptions of Place and Environment among Mi'kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. Lund Studies in History of Religions, 14. Almqvist & Wiksell International. Dissertation.
Editorships (1)
Articles (28)
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2018). ”Leder religionsantropologins utmaningar och forskningsproblematik till nostalgiska elegier och idylliska tankar om ädla vildar?”. Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 68, 91-101. Aarhus University Press.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2017). Interrituality as a Means to Perform the Art of Building New Rituals. Journal of Ritual Studies, 31, 17-27.
- Wemrell, M., Merlo, J., Mulinari, S. & Hornborg, A.-C. (2017). Two thirds of Survey Respondents in Southern Sweden used Complementary or Alternative Medicine (CAM) in 2015. Complementary Medicine Research, 24, 302-309. S. Karger AG.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2016). Förtrollande riter i det offentliga rummet : hur designas den lyckade individen?. Chaos. Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionhistoriske studier, 65, 23-52. Københavns Universitet, Institut for religionshistorie ; Religionshistorisk Forening.
- Wemrell, M., Merlo, J., Mulinari, S. & Hornborg, A.-C. (2016). Contemporary Epidemiology : A Review of Critical Discussions Within the Discipline and A Call for Further Dialogue with Social Theory. Sociology Compass, 10, 153-171. John Wiley & Sons.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2015). Mannen som gifte sig med en bäver : Ett omöjligt äktenskap?. Chaos. Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionhistoriske studier, 1, 7-19. Københavns Universitet, Institut for religionshistorie ; Religionshistorisk Forening.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2015). Ondska hos mi'kmaq : ett kulturellt och historiskt färgat begrepp. Din: religionsvitenskapelig tidsskrift, 1, 13-37. Novus Forlag.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2013). Inledning: Riternas förändring i det moderna Sverige. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 89, 49-53. Gleerups Utbildning AB.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2012). Secular Spirituality in Contemporary Sweden. Swedish Missiological Themes, 100, 303-321. Swedish Institute of Mission Research.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2011). Are We All Spiritual?. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 1, 249-268. Equinox.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2010). Designing Rites to Re-enchant Secularized Society: New Varieties of Spiritualized Therapy in Contemporary Sweden. Journal of Religion and Health, online 25 May 2010. Springer.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2010). I coachingland - på spaning efter den inre potentialen. Chaos. Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionhistoriske studier, 53, 1-16. Københavns Universitet, Institut for religionshistorie ; Religionshistorisk Forening.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2008). Protecting Earth? Rappaport's Vision of Rituals as Environmental Practices. Journal of Human Ecology, 23, 275-283. Kamla-Raj Enterprises.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2007). "I'm Inca": The Fiesta of Mamacha Carmen in the Andean Village of Pisac. Journal of Ritual Studies, 21, 46-56.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2007). Att återförtrolla det sekulariserade samhället: Är Sverige på väg in i Vattumannens tidsålder?. Svensk religionshistorisk årsskrift, 2007, 33-59. Svenska samfundet för religionshistorisk forskning.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2007). Riter för "Det Högre Självet" - Nyandlighet som terapi i det senmoderna Sverige. Finsk tidskrift: kultur, ekonomi, politik, 258-270. Föreningen Granskaren.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2006). "Människa, varför har Ni valt det här yrket?" : Ledarskap och praktik i nya riter. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 82, 110-122. Gleerups Utbildning AB.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2006). Nya rituella sammanhang i senmodernitetens Sverige. Tvärsnitt:Humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning, 20-23. Vetenskapsrådet.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2006). Visiting the Six Worlds : Shamanistic Journeys in Canadian Mi'kmaq Cosmology. Journal of American Folklore, 119, 312-336. American Folklore Society.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2005). Eloquent bodies : Rituals in the Context of Alleviating Suffering. Numen, 52, 356-394. Brill Academic Publishers.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2005). Talande kroppar. Ritual och återupprättelse. Chaos. Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionhistoriske studier, 113-141. Københavns Universitet, Institut for religionshistorie ; Religionshistorisk Forening.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2004). Cosmology, Ethics and the "Biocentric Indian". Acta Americana, 12, 29-48. The Swedish Americanist Society.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2004). Différentes perceptions du paysage : changement et continuité chez les Micmacs. Recherches amerindiennes au Quebec, 34, 45-57. Societe des recherches amerindiennes au Quebec.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2004). Ritual Practice as Power Play or Redemptive Hegemony : The Mi’kmaq Appropriation of Catholicism. Swedish Missiological Themes, 92, 169-193. Swedish Institute of Mission Research.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2003). Being in the Field: Reflections on a Mi’kmaq Kekunit Ceremony. Anthropology and Humanism, 28, 1-13. The Society for Humanistic Anthropology: University of California Press.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2002). "Readbacks" or Tradition? The Kluskap Stories among Modern Canadian Mi'kmaq. European Review of Native American Studies, 16, 9-16. Pallas.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2002). St Anne's Day : A Time to "Turn Home" for the Canadian Mi'kmaq Indians. International Review of Mission, XCI, 237-255. The Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2001). Kluskap - as local culture hero and global green warrior: Different narrative contexts for the Canadian Mi’kmaq culture hero. Acta Americana, 9, 17-38. The Swedish Americanist Society.
Book chapters (22)
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2018). Religion inifrån och utifrån : Perspektiv på autenticitet och andlighet i fält. In Enstedt, D. & Plank, K. (Eds.) (pp. 60-78). Nordic Academic Press.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2017). ”Jag är mi’kmaq och det jag gör är min kultur!”. In Hall, E. & Liljefors Persson, B. (Eds.) Föreningen lärare i Religionskunskap (pp. 93-107), 49. Föreningen lärare i religionskunskap.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2016). Objects as Subjects : Agency and Performativity in Rituals. In Ingman, P., Hovi, T., Utriainen, T. & Broo, M. (Eds.) The Study of Religion in a Global Context (pp. 27-45). Equinox.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2015). Skolcoaching : en historisk möjlighet eller dagslända?. In Larsson, H. A. (Ed.) (pp. 11-30), 2-3. Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Jönköping: Samhällsstudier och didaktik.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2014). Att få flow i livet: Mind-body-terapin och coaching som nya helandemetoder. In Moberg, J. & Ståhle, G. (Eds.) (pp. 145-166). Dialogos.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2014). Hitta dina inre resurser : Mindfulness som kommersiell produkt. In Plank, K. (Ed.) (pp. 177-202). Nordic Academic Press.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2013). ”Det är ett sätt att leva från den dag du föds”: Om andlighet och reservatsliv hos kanadensiska mi’kmaq. In Sorgenfrei, S. (Ed.) (pp. 141-157). Dialogos.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2013). Healing or dealing? Neospiritual Therapies and Coaching as Individual Meaning and Social Discipline in Late Modern Swedish Society. In Gauthier, F. & Martikainen, T. (Eds.) (pp. 189-206). Ashgate.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2012). Are you content with being just ordinary? Or do you wish to make progress and be outstanding?. In Ahlbäck, T. & Dahla, B. (Eds.) (pp. 110-127), 24. Åbo: Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2012). Making a Garden out of the Wilderness. In Feldt, L. (Ed.) (pp. 205-228), Religion and Society Seeries vol. 55. De Gruyter.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2011). Designing Rites to Re-Enchant Secularised Society: Cases from Contemporary Sweden. In Ahn, G. & Michaels, A. (Eds.) (pp. 671-691), 4. Harrassowitz.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2010). Cultural Trauma, Ritual and Healing. In Collste, G. (Ed.) (pp. 104-109), Studier i tillämpad etik 12. Linköping University Electronic Press.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2010). Inledning: Ritual Studies som ett flervetenskapligt sätt att studera ritualer. In Hornborg, A.-C. (Ed.) (pp. 11-23). Linköping University Electronic Press.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2010). Marknadsföring av natur, hälsa och rituellt helande i det senmoderna Sverige. In Hornborg, A.-C. (Ed.) (pp. 159-169). Linköping University Electronic Press.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2010). Ritualer. In Svensson, J. & Arvidsson, S. (Eds.) (pp. 37-41), 2. Högskolan i Halmstad.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2009). Owners of the Past: Readbacks or Tradition in Mi'kmaq Narratives. In Wilmer, S. E. (Ed.) (pp. 61-77). The Univerisity of Arizona Press.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2009). Praxis Dialogue: Catholic Rituals in Native American Contexts. In Fridlund, P., Kaennel, L. & Stenqvist, C. (Eds.) (pp. 37-54). Peeters Publishers.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2009). Selling Nature, Selling Health: The Commodification of Ritual Healing in Late Modern Sweden. In Bergmann, S. & Kim, Y.-B. (Eds.) (pp. 109-130). LIT Verlag.
- Hornborg, A.-C. & Eaton, H. (2009). Ritual Time and Space: A Liminal Age and Religious Consciousness. In Bergmann, S. & Kim, Y.-B. (Eds.) (pp. 79-89). LIT Verlag.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2007). Rites for Modern Man: New Practices in Sweden. In Midholm, L., Nordström, A. & Agozzino, M. T. (Eds.) (pp. 83-92).
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2000). "Djävulsdyrkare", trollkarl eller schaman: det europeiska mötet med buoin hos kanadensiska mi'kmaqindianer. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (1998). Handel och mission hos kanadensiska mi’kmaqindianer under 1600-talet. Svenska samfundet för religionshistorisk forskning.
Reports (1)
Reviews (5)
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2017). Recension av Regnskovens religion – forestillinger og ritualer blandt Borneos sidste jægersamlere. Chaos. Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionhistoriske studier, 179-181. Københavns Universitet, Institut for religionshistorie ; Religionshistorisk Forening.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2017). Review of Regnskovens religion - forestillinger og ritualer blandt Borneos sidste jaeger-samlerer. Hunter Gatherer Research, 2, 483-486. Liverpool University Press.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2017). Review of Regnskovens religion – forestillinger og ritualer blandt Borneos sidste jægersamlere. Hunter Gatherer Research, 2, 483-486. Liverpool University Press.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2014). Review of Jennifer Reid's Finding Kluskap. A Journey into MI'kmaw Myth. Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde, 109, 736-737. Anthropos Institute.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2013). Anne Kalvig, Åndeleg helse: Ein kulturanalytisk studie av menneske - og livssyn hos alternative terapeutar. Avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor. Chaos. Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionhistoriske studier, 1, 242-244. Københavns Universitet, Institut for religionshistorie ; Religionshistorisk Forening.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (5)
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2019). Funerals of the future? : Sweden sees sharp rise in burials without ceremony. The Conversation.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2014). Snabba lösningar till pånyttfödelse. Fokus forskning : Lunds universitets forskningsmagasin. Lunds universitet.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2013). På spaning efter den inre potentialen. RIT: Religionsvetenskaplig Internettidskrift, 1-7. Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap, Lunds universitet.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2009). Lokala livsvärldar och texternas konstruktioner: om "indianens" natursyn. R & L : Religion och Livsfrågor, 40, 18-20. Föreningen lärare i religionskunskap.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2006). Terapi eller rit: Kulturella aspekter på läkande. Anpere: Anthropological Perspectives on Religion. Anpere.
Newspaper articles (10)
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2016). Förödmjukande att tvingas gå kurserna. Svenska Dagbladet, 5-5. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2012). Coaching har blivit vår tids väckelse. Svenska Dagbladet, Brännpunkt, nätpublikation.
- Hornborg, A.-C. & Larsson, H. A. (2012). Läxhjälp ett hån mot lärarnas kompetens. Svenska Dagbladet, Brännpunkt. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Hornborg, A.-C. & Larsson, H. A. (2011). Oseriöst att kommunala skolan hyr in coacher. Aftonbladet: Debatt.
- Hornborg, A.-C. & Larsson, H. A. (2011). Skattepengar ska inte gå till studiecoacher. Aftonbladet Debatt.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2009). Arbetslösa erbjuds kosmisk energi. Aftonbladet.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2009). Terapi mot arbetslösheten. Aftonbladet Debatt.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2007). I mörker är alla terapeuter gråa. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2007). Självkännedom kostar. Sydsvenska dagbladet. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
- Hornborg, A.-C. (2007). Utnyttja inte människors längtan. SvD. Svenska Dagbladet.
Supervision at Lund University (2)
- Thykier Makeeff, T. (2019). Do Satyrs Wear Sneakers? : Hellenic Polytheism and the Reception of Antiquity in Contemporary Greece – a study in serious play. MediaTryck Lund. Dissertation.
- Wemrell, M. (2017). An intersectional approach in social epidemiology: Understanding health heterogeneity. Lund University, Faculty of Medicine. Dissertation.
Research portal (Lund University)
Other tasks and qualifications
• Ledamot i European Forum for the Study of Religion & the Environment’s executive committee 2015
• Medlem i SAR, The Society of Anthropology of Religion, American Anthropological Association.
• Medlem i NACS, Nordic Association for Canadian Studies.
• Medlem i The Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture.
• Medlem i European Forum for the Study of Religion and Environment
Editorial Board
• Journal for the Study of Spirituality – gesut av Taylor & Francis group
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