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Selling Nature, Selling Health: The Commodification of Ritual Healing in Late Modern Sweden

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Author

Editor

  • Sigurd Bergmann
  • Yong-Bock Kim

Summary, in English

The chapter outlines how nature and health are employed in the commodification of ritual healing in late modern Sweden. New ritualized practices have developed which are aimed at the modern man. How do these new rituals connect to health and nature and how are tradition, body, mind, place and locality represented within these practices?

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

109-130

Publication/Series

Religion, Ecology & Gender: East-West Perspectives

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

LIT Verlag

Topic

  • History of Religions

Keywords

  • Individual-centered acts
  • rites as commodities
  • health
  • market system

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-3-8258-1901-9