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Manon Hedenborg White

5 papers in the library · 42 citations · publishing 2016-2026

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Religion, spirituality, or stress management? Mindfulness and meditation in Swedish textbooks for Religious Education and Physical Education and Health

British Journal of Religious Education January 27, 2026 Manon Hedenborg White, Torun Mattsson

The aim of this article is to advance knowledge on how mindfulness and meditation are understood in the educational system, an important yet under-explored context for these phenomena in Sweden and internationally. This is done by means of an exploratory and qualitative study of how mindfulness and meditation are constructed in Swedish textbooks for Religious Education (RE) and Physical...

DOI: 10.1080/01416200.2026.2618575 (opens in new tab) Religious education Physical education Stress linguistics Physical health +5

Introduction by the Editors

The Magical Diaries of Leah Hirsig, 1923-1925 September 9, 2025 Manon Hedenborg White, Henrik Bogdan

Abstract This editorial introduction provides a biographical overview of the life of Leah Hirsig, a Swiss-American schoolteacher, occultist and, during the 1920s, lover and follower of the prominent British occultist Aleister Crowley. Hirsig’s involvement in Crowley’s religion, Thelema, is traced, from her initial meeting with Crowley in 1918–1919 until her departure from the movement in...

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197580943.003.0001 (opens in new tab)

Magic in Art, Poetry, and Biography

Religion and the Arts March 27, 2024 Manon Hedenborg White

Abstract The article analyzes four works of poetry and illustration produced by the artist, poet, and occultist Marjorie Cameron (1922–1995) in the 1950s and 1960s. Widow of rocket scientist and occultist John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons (1914–1952), an early follower of Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) religion Thelema, Cameron was also a friend and collaborator of Beat artist Wallace Berman...

DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02801005 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Poetry Biography Magic telescope Guardian +3

The Scythe and the Pentagram: Santa Muerte from Folk Catholicism to Occultism

Religions December 22, 2016 Manon Hedenborg White, Fredrik Gregorius 41 citations

Santa Muerte is establishing a presence among practitioners of contemporary occultism in Europe and North America. The occult milieu is highly different from the Mexican cult of Santa Muerte, having a strong heritage of secrecy and tradition as social capital and being mostly middle-class in orientation. Nonetheless, this Catholic folk saint with a mostly pragmatic, popular, and grassroots cult...

DOI: 10.3390/rel8010001 (opens in new tab) Saint Occult Context archaeology Grassroots +9