Search for dissertations about: "Holy Image"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words Holy Image.

  2. 1. Byzantine holy images and the issue of transcendence and immanence : The theological background of the Late Byzantine Palaiologan iconography and aesthetics of the Chora church, Istanbul

    Author : Anne Karahan; Margareta Rossholm Lagerlöf; Madeleine von Heland; Øystein Hjort; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aesthetics; Balance; Basil the Great; Byzantine; Cappadocian Fathers; Chora church; Chora museum; Church Father; Fresco; Gregory of Nazianzos; Gregory Nazianzen; Gregory of Nyssa; Holy Image; Icon; Iconography; Immanence; Istanbul; John of Damascus; John Damascene; Kariye Camii; Kariye Müzesi; Kinetics; Late Byzantine; Medieval Art; Mosaic; Mural painting; Palaiologan; Palaeologan; Patristics; Transcendence; Art; Konstvetenskap;

    Abstract : On the basis of theological ideas in the Christian Orthodox tradition in general, and the Cappadocian Fathers in specific, this dissertation examines how the ontology of the transcendent triune God and the human and divine in Christ is implied or manifest in the Late Byzantine Palaiologan mosaics and murals of the Chora church.The study is divided into four chapters. READ MORE

  4. 2. Saint Daniel of Sketis. A Group of Hagiographic Texts Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

    Author : Britt Dahlman; Grekiska (antik och bysantinsk); []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kristendom; Christianity; desert fathers; holy cross-dresser; salos; holy fool; secret servant of God; secret saint; monasticism; xeniteia; hagiography; Apophthegmata Patrum; Anastasia Patrikia; Andronikos and Athanasia; Thomais Alexandrina; Eulogius latomus; Eulogios the Stone-cutter; Marcus salus; Daniel of Scetis Mark the Fool; Alexandria; Egypt; Byzantine Greek; Late Antiquity; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia; Greek language; Grekiska språket; Greek literature; Grekisk litteratur; Byzantinology;

    Abstract : This volume is a new edition with a parallel English translation of eight Greek stories related to Daniel of Sketis: 1) Abba Daniel from Sketis; 2) Abba Mark the Fool; 3) The blind man; 4AB) A holy and chaste young woman; 5) The woman who pretended to be a drunkard; 6) Eulogios the Stone-cutter; 7) Andronikos the Money-dealer and his wife Athanasia; 8) Anastasia Patrikia. The stories deal with secret saints and holy cross-dressers in sixth-century Egypt. READ MORE

  5. 3. Entering the Holy Place in Syriac Orthodox Liturgy : A Ritual and Theological Analysis

    Author : Gabriel Bar-Sawme; Ninna Edgardh Beckman; Kathleen McVey; Michael Hjälm; Bryan Spinks; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Syriac Orthodox liturgy; rite of entrance; ritual theory; Ronald Grimes; Victor Turner; liturgical studies; liturgics; liturgical history.; Kyrkovetenskap; Ecclesiology;

    Abstract : Questions concerning sacred spaces and their relationship to ritual is of interest to historians of religion and others as well. How sacred spaces emerge and are constructed and what relationship they have to rituals are some of the areas that are dealt with in this study in relation to Syriac Orthodox liturgy. READ MORE

  6. 4. “Woke” Authenticity in Brand Culture : A Patchwork Ethnography

    Author : Jonatan Södergren; Jacob Östberg; Nishant Kumar; Shona Bettany; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; authenticity; consumer research; cultural branding; deconstruction; marginalized consumers; marketing communications; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : Authenticity is often considered the holy grail in marketing. Prior research has focused on authenticity in consumption and marketing communications based on countercultural images of personal freedom, including mythologies based on resistant rebels and social outlaws. READ MORE

  7. 5. Relations of Absence : Germans in the East Indies and Their Families c. 1750–1820

    Author : Francisca Hoyer; Margaret R. Hunt; Claudia Jarzebowski; Renate Dürr; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; British East India Company; Dutch East India Company; Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; 18th century; 19th century; Southeast Asia; India; Cape Colony; Brandenburg-Prussia; German history; global family history; new imperial history; gender history; history of emotions; concubinage; inter-ethnic unions; colonialism; slavery; Ostindienfahrer; petitions;

    Abstract : In the early modern period thousands of Germans, mostly men but also a few women and children, travelled to the Indian Ocean world in the service of the Dutch and British East India companies (VOC and EIC). Family played a key role for these Ostindienfahrer (East Indies travellers). READ MORE