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Michaelmas celebrations in Waldorf schools


 

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There is a new study of Michaelmas celebrations in Waldorf schools:?

Camilla Stabel J?rgensen and Marie von der Lippe, "Playing with the dragon: Michaelmas celebrations in Steiner schools" in Alexandros Tsakos, ed., The Archangel Michael Beyond Orthodoxies: History, Politics and Popular Culture (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), 189-214

It is based on the authors' study of Norwegian Waldorf schools. They see Steiner as a "religious entrepreneur" and find that the Michaelmas celebrations are a ritual with significant mythological and religious content. The chapter can is freely available online, along with the entire book:

List of figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction 1.¡°The archangel Michael looked just like me¡±:The iconization of the archangel Michael in twentieth-century Moldova, James A. Kapal¨®, (University College Cork, Ireland) 2. ¡°Latent archangels¡±: The archangel Michael in Romanian fascism, Roland Clark, (University of Liverpool, UK) 3.
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