No 6 (2016)
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Health and Well-Being in Today’s Scandinavia
This issue of LIR-journal »Health and well-being in today’s Scandinavia« is the outcome of interdisciplinary research done within the research programme »Religion, Culture, and Health« at the Faculty of Arts, at the University of Gothenburg, between 2010 and 2014.2 Here six scholars present their work on how it is possible to understand and deal with the growing number of people suffering from various states of illness, as well as mental and social difficulties, and therefore also how it is possible to apprehend and treat health problems related to ideological and culturally defined issues, such as ethical and political questions, gender structure, and religion.
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Health through Work: Lutheran and gendered perspectives in Swedish health magazines 1910–13
(LIR. journal, 2016)This article analyses Lutheran and gendered perspectives in Swedish health magazines published from 1910 to 1913. As the article shows, we may talk of a masculine middle-class bias that, in the magazines, intertwined ... -
”I wish I had gone on a diet”. Citizenship in Danish campaigns and the novel The Mountain
(LIR. journal, 2016)Health and physicality play a key role in the citizenship grammar of the late welfare state, and the citizen’s identity is increasingly linked to body functions and body appearance. In particular, overweight citizens ... -
Translation and untellability. Autistic subjects in autobiographical discourse
(LIR. journal, 2016)This article discusses the conditions for and reception of auto biographies by autistic persons from a critical disability per spective. Taking as a point of departure theories of narrativity where storytelling is seen ... -
Women’s experience of reading fiction while on sick leave
(LIR. journal, 2016)The article presents an empirical study of women’s experi ences of reading fiction while on sick leave. The aim is to discuss questions concerning the choice of literature and the function of reading in a bibliotherapeutic ... -
Social reading for mental health
(LIR. journal, 2016)Social reading is a praxis that has gained renewed interest during the twenty-first century. In my research project »Social reading — fiction and health« I strive to throw light on if and how the use of group discussions ... -
Existential Health. Philosophical and historical perspectives
(LIR. journal, 2016)In this article I strive for a conceptual clarification and constructive elaboration of the concept of existential health. Taking my cue from the multidimensionality of health – re ferring to contemporary experience, ... -
Editorial - Introduction
(LIR. journal, 2016)
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