Search for dissertations about: "Congo"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 61 swedish dissertations containing the word Congo.

  2. 1. Culture Confrontation in the Lower Congo : From the Old Congo Kingdom to the Congo Independent State with Special Reference to the Swedish Missionaries in the 1880's and 1890's

    Author : Sigbert Axelson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; culture confrontation; culture conflict; Congo; Portuguese; missionary roles; Congo Kingdom; Congo Independent State; Missionary studies; Missionsvetenskap; Missionsvetenskap; Studies of Missions;

    Abstract : The culture confrontation remains the central theme throughout this book, with special emphasis given to points of conflict. My approach to each particular era has been guided by the question: What were the areas of incompatibility or conflict between African and European culture in the Lower Congo? By focusing my analysis on the dynamics of this confrontation, the point of contact between Congolese and Europeans, I have marked that the purpose of this study is not to present a characterization of Congolese or African culture as separate entities. READ MORE

  4. 2. "We are in the Congo now" : Sweden and the trinity of peacekeeping during the Congo crisis 1960-1964

    Author : Andreas Tullberg; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; UN; government; ONUC; Peacekeeping; Sweden; Congo; Katanga; 1960s; Cold War; Carl von Clausewitz; trinity; conflict; war; military; media;

    Abstract : his work examines the contemporaneous Swedish experience from participation in the United Nations operation in the Congo, ONUC, from 1960 to 1964. Inspired by Carl von Clausewitz’s understanding of war as a trinity consisting of three ‘nodes’: the political authority, the people and the military, this study focuses on the ONUC experience as described by the government in Sweden, leading Swedish news media and the Swedish battalions serving in the Congo. READ MORE

  5. 3. Conversion and Contextual Conceptions of Christ: A Missiological Study among Young Converts in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

    Author : Carl Sundberg; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of the Christian church; Kä Mana; Buana Kibongi; B.; Bujo; Kongo; Ta Kimbangi; Brazzaville; Republic of Congo; Conversion conversion stories; Christology Africa; Missiology Congo Brazzaville; Eglise Evangélique du Congo; African Traditional Religion; Africa youth; African Independent Churches; Nganga; Ndoki; Kindoki; Kristna kyrkans historia;

    Abstract : This study presents contextual conceptions of Christ among young urban converts, within the Evangelical Church of Congo (EEC). The basic data consists of interviews, conversion stories, gathered during fieldwork in 1995-1997. From the data explicit and implicit conceptions of Christ were deducted and accounted for in the study. READ MORE

  6. 4. Exile Warriors : Violence and Community among Hutu Rebels in the eastern Congo

    Author : Anna Hedlund; Socialantropologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Democratic Republic of Congo; Eastern Congo; Rwanda; violence; war; rebel camp; genocide; community; Hutu; identity; structural violence; political violence; rebels; soldier; civilian; refugees; exclusion; victim; perpetrator; Goma; Bukavu; armed groups; post-genocide; conflict; anthropology;

    Abstract : This dissertation is an anthropological study of war and violence in the volatile eastern territories of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ethnographic focus is on one of the largest rebel groups currently operating in the Congo conflicts, the Hutu-dominated Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). READ MORE

  7. 5. Mission and state in the Congo : a study of the relations between Protestant missions and the Congo independant state authorities with special reference to the Equator district, 1885-1903

    Author : David Lagergren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

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