Search for dissertations about: "cult image"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words cult image.

2. 1. The Lenaia vases revisited : image, ritual and Dionysian women

   Author : Viveca Olsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Attic pottery; black figure vases; red figure vases; Lenaia vases; stamnos; iconography; Dionysus; Dionysian women; maenads; Delphi; Thyiades; Greek cult; cult image; ritual; Etruria;

   Abstract : This study deals with the so-called Lenaia vases, a group of fifty vases which were painted with similar imagery in Attica during 490-420 BC. The motifs of these vases depict "Dionysian" women, drinking wine and sacrificing bloody and bloodless offerings before a cult image of Dionysos. READ MORE

4. 2. Cargo Cult in Agile Software Development

   Author : Tanja Elina Havstorm; Fredrik Karlsson; Karin Hedström; Shang Gao; Kai Wistrand; Erik Perjons; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agile software development; cargo cult; deviations; ethnography; SDMCCT; social action theory; software development method; work motivation theory; theorizing;

   Abstract : Software development (SD) projects are complex endeavors, and organizations employ software development methods (SDMs) both to add structure and to propel their projects. Nowadays, agile SDMs are the most used methods. READ MORE

5. 3. The Untimely-Image : On Contours of the New in Political Film-Thinking

   Author : Jakob Nilsson; Astrid Söderbergh-Widding; Tom Conley; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Film-thinking; film-philosophy; political film; the untimely; Deleuze; The Wire; Badiou; Jameson; the new; novelty; advanced capitalism; cognitive mapping; blackness; Greek tragedy; aesthetics; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

   Abstract : This study creates and develops a concept called the untimely-image including two sub-concepts called contours of the new and the untimely-site. The untimely-image concerns the clearing for and the expression of figures of “potential” in thought in the form of moving-images. READ MORE

6. 4. The Stick and the Calabash : Building gods in Bahian Candomblé

   Author : Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen; Mattias Gardell; Inger Sjørslev; Diana Espírito Santo; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Afro-Brazilian religion; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

   Abstract : Practitioners of the Brazilian religion Candomblé frequently explain syncretism with a myth about how slaves camouflaged the cult of their embodied African gods behind the worship of icons of Catholic saints. The myth is multivalent and here I try to see it as a mapping of how Candomblistas operate hybridity in their construction of deities. READ MORE

7. 5. The green shadow of Christ : a reception-exegetical study of Jesus and Pan in the gospel of Mark

   Author : David Wiljebrand; Karin Neutel; Mikael Tellbe; David Horrell; Sylvia Keesmaat; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gospel of Mark; Pan; Ecological Hermeneutics; eco-critisism; reception exegesis; agrarian culture; agrarianism; imperial ideology; pastoral poetry; Greco-Roman religion; nature discourses; Satan; demonology; Environmental History; nya testamentets exegetik; New Testament Exegesis;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates presentations of Jesus in the gospel of Mark, mainly chapter 6 and 9, in the light of the juxtaposition of Christ and the Greek nature god Pan. This juxtaposition recurs in the reception history of Pan in Western European culture. READ MORE