ABSTRACT
Once in the 1980s I saw a real American Indian sitting in a café in the middle of Copenhagen. With much appreciation in her voice my friend, who had accompanied me, told me that he was the person in charge of the “Indian courses.” At that time these “Indian courses”—with an origin in the religion of the Hopi Indians-were the new trend in the therapeutic market in Denmark. Everybody with a taste for New Age and the markets in alternative healing and spirituality knew about them. Even my newborn daughter’s visiting nurse recommended the Indian courses as a good after-birth therapy. The interest in Denmark, in particular of the Indian courses and more generally of Hopi religion, can be traced back to the 1960s American hippie movement and its enthusiasm for exotic and alternative religions, including the Hopi.
