Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen

Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is Historian of Religion, Ph.D. from Uppsala in Sweden and anchor person on the Nordic Animism cultural initiative. He has researched counter-modern strategies for maintaining animist reality in the modern world in Afro-diasporic culture. In his present work as a public intellectual, he popularizes an animist perspective on North European cultural history as traditional ways of knowing rejected through the epistemological colonization that produces euro-descended people as “white people”. He applies New-Animist theory, Ontological turn thinking and indigenous knowledge anthropology to recover Euro-traditional forms of land-connectedness, ecological knowledge and kinship with the greater community of beings. And he is working to this project into direct cultural changemaking through public media, scholarship and cultural events.