Brandt, Katharina, Hammer, Olav (2013). Handbook of the Theosophical Current. Brill, "Rudolf Steiner and Theosophy", 113 fn. 1. ISBN 978-90-04-23597-7. Geraadpleegd op 23 January 2024 "From a scholar’s point of view, Anthroposophy presents characteristics typically associated with religion, and in particular concepts of suprahuman agents (such as angels), a charismatic founder with postulated insight into the suprahuman realm (Steiner himself), rituals (for instance, eurythmy), and canonical texts (Steiner’s writings). From an insider’s perspective, however, “anthroposophy is not a religion, nor is it meant to be a substitute for religion. While its insights may support, illuminate or complement religious practice, it provides no belief system” (from the Waldorf school website www.waldorfanswers.com/NotReligion1.htm , accessed 9 October 2011). The contrast between a scholarly and an insiders’ perspective on what constitutes religion is highlighted by the clinching warrant for this assertion. Although the website argues that Anthroposophy is not a religion by stating that there are no spiritual teachers and no beliefs, it does so by adding a reference to a text by Steiner, who thus functions as an unquestioned authority figure."
Hammer, Olav (2008). New Religions and Globalization. Aarhus University Press, p. 69. ISBN 978-87-7934-681-9. Geraadpleegd op 23 January 2024 "Anthroposophy is thus from an emic point of view emphatically not a religion."
Gardner, Martin (1957). Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Dover Publications, 169, 224f. ISBN 978-0-486-20394-2. Geraadpleegd op 31 January 2022 "The late Rudolf Steiner, founder of the Anthropsophical Society, the fastest growing cult in post-war Germany... Closely related to the organic farming movement is the German anthroposophical cult founded by Rudolf Steiner, whom we met earlier in connection with his writings on Atlantis and Lemuria. ... In essence, the anthroposophists' approach to the soil is like their approach to the human body—a variation of homeopathy. (See Steiner's An Outline of Anthroposophical Medical Research, English translation, 1939, for an explanation of how mistletoe, when properly prepared, will cure cancer by absorbing "etheric forces" and strengthening the "astral body.") They believe the soil can be made more "dynamic" by adding to it certain mysterious preparations which, like the medicines of homeopathic "purists," are so diluted that nothing material of the compound remains."
Zie ook DWB (2022). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 4th. OUP Oxford, "anthroposophy", 76–77. ISBN 978-0-19-263815-1. Geraadpleegd op 18 May 2024.
(de) Rudolf Steiner (2010). Der Übersinnliche Mensch - Anthroposophisch erfasst. RUDOLF STEINER ONLINE ARCHIV, p. 72 "[...] denn das Herz ist ein Sinnesorgan, das die Blutbewegung wahrnimmt, es ist nicht, wie es die Physiker meinen, ein Pumpwerk, sondern durch die Geistigkeit und Vitalität des Menschen bewegt sich das Blut [...]"
G.K. Chesterton Society, G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture (February–May 2000). A conference on New Age and Christian spirituality. The Chesterton ReviewXXVI (1&2) (G.K. Chesterton Society, 1974- G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture). ISSN: 0317-0500. “One needs to recognise several things in New Age in order not to over-react: it is not monolithic; it is not a den of demons; nor is it a den of fools. Three main currents need to be taken very seriously, even if they reject being included in the broad term New Age. They are René Guénon’s tariqa or school of intellectual Sufism, Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy and 'the Work', devised by Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff.”.
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Swartz, Karen, Hammer, Olav (14 June 2022). Soft charisma as an impediment to fundamentalist discourse: The case of the Anthroposophical Society in Sweden. Approaching Religion12 (2): 18–37. ISSN: 1799-3121. DOI: 10.30664/ar.113383. “2. It can be noted that insiders routinely deny that Anthroposophy is a religion and prefer to characterise it as, for example, a philosophical perspective or a form of science. From a scholarly perspective, however, Anthroposophy has all the elements that one typically associates with a religion, for example, a charismatic founder whose status is based on claims of having direct insight into a normally invisible spiritual dimension of existence, a plethora of culturally postulated suprahuman beings that are said to influence our lives, concepts of an afterlife, canonical texts and rituals. Religions whose members deny that the movement they belong to has anything to do with religion are not uncommon in the modern age, but the reason for this is a matter that goes beyond the confines of this article.”.
Hansson, Sven Ove (1 July 2022). Anthroposophical Climate Science Denial. Critical Research on Religion10 (3): 281–297 (SAGE Publications). ISSN: 2050-3032. DOI: 10.1177/20503032221075382. “Anthroposophy has characteristics usually associated with religions, not least a belief in a large number of spiritual beings (Toncheva 2015, 73–81, 134–135). However, its adherents emphatically reject that it is a religion, claiming instead that it is a spiritual science, Geisteswissenschaft (Zander 2007, 1:867).”.
Zie ook Brown, Candy Gunther (6 May 2019). Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools. University of North Carolina Press. DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648484.003.0012, "Waldorf Methods", 229–254. ISBN 978-1-4696-4848-4 "premised on anthroposophy, a religious sect founded by Steiner;"
Ahlbäck, Tore (1 januari 2008). Rudolf Steiner as a religious authority. Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis20. ISSN: 2343-4937. DOI: 10.30674/scripta.67323.
Hammer, Olav, Swartz-Hammer, Karen (2024). New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion. Cambridge University Press, "NRMs in Comparative Perspective", p. 62. ISBN 978-1-009-03402-9. Geraadpleegd op 19 juli 2024.
Zie ook International Bureau of Education (1957). Bulletin of the International Bureau of Education. International Bureau of Education, p. 36. Geraadpleegd op 9 February 2024 "anthroposophy - a religion based upon the philosophical and scientific knowledge of man"
(en) Rudolf Steiner (1998). Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner. Anthroposophic Press, p. 607. ISBN 0-88010--421-X. Gearchiveerd op 1 december 2022. Geraadpleegd op 29 mei 2022 "[...] for instance, an island like Great Britain swims in the sea and is held fast by the forces of the stars. In actuality, such islands do not sit directly upon a foundation; they swim and are held fast from outside."
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Swartz, Karen, Hammer, Olav (14 June 2022). Soft charisma as an impediment to fundamentalist discourse: The case of the Anthroposophical Society in Sweden. Approaching Religion12 (2): 18–37. ISSN: 1799-3121. DOI: 10.30664/ar.113383. “2. It can be noted that insiders routinely deny that Anthroposophy is a religion and prefer to characterise it as, for example, a philosophical perspective or a form of science. From a scholarly perspective, however, Anthroposophy has all the elements that one typically associates with a religion, for example, a charismatic founder whose status is based on claims of having direct insight into a normally invisible spiritual dimension of existence, a plethora of culturally postulated suprahuman beings that are said to influence our lives, concepts of an afterlife, canonical texts and rituals. Religions whose members deny that the movement they belong to has anything to do with religion are not uncommon in the modern age, but the reason for this is a matter that goes beyond the confines of this article.”.
Hansson, Sven Ove (1 July 2022). Anthroposophical Climate Science Denial. Critical Research on Religion10 (3): 281–297 (SAGE Publications). ISSN: 2050-3032. DOI: 10.1177/20503032221075382. “Anthroposophy has characteristics usually associated with religions, not least a belief in a large number of spiritual beings (Toncheva 2015, 73–81, 134–135). However, its adherents emphatically reject that it is a religion, claiming instead that it is a spiritual science, Geisteswissenschaft (Zander 2007, 1:867).”.
Ahlbäck, Tore (1 januari 2008). Rudolf Steiner as a religious authority. Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis20. ISSN: 2343-4937. DOI: 10.30674/scripta.67323.
G.K. Chesterton Society, G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture (February–May 2000). A conference on New Age and Christian spirituality. The Chesterton ReviewXXVI (1&2) (G.K. Chesterton Society, 1974- G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture). ISSN: 0317-0500. “One needs to recognise several things in New Age in order not to over-react: it is not monolithic; it is not a den of demons; nor is it a den of fools. Three main currents need to be taken very seriously, even if they reject being included in the broad term New Age. They are René Guénon’s tariqa or school of intellectual Sufism, Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy and 'the Work', devised by Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff.”.
