Search for dissertations about: "discursive tradition"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words discursive tradition.

  2. 1. Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age

    Author : Olav Hammer; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; discourse; anthroposophy; discursive strategy; disembedding; emic historiography; globalization; late modernity; movement text; New Age; reflexivity; religious experience; scientism; secularization; sociocognitive analysis; tradition; theosophy; Theology; Western esotericism; Teologi;

    Abstract : The study addresses the question of how religious creativity in the West manages to adapt to the forces of modernity. The empirical data are drawn from a set of historically and thematically related movements, from late nineteenth century theosophy to the contemporary New Age.The dissertation is divided into three main sections. READ MORE

  4. 2. Lovers of Muhammad : A Study of Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufis in the Twenty-First Century

    Author : Simon Stjernholm; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sufism; Islam; Britain; Naqshbandi-Haqqani; Shaykh Nazim; Hisham Kabbani; Sufi Muslim Council; transnationalism; discursive tradition; narrative; hagiography; dhikr;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to contribute, both empirically and theoretically, to the field of study within Islamology that concerns contemporary Sufism in non-Muslim majority societies. It does so by investigating how activities and narratives provide meaning and identity for participants in the transnational Sufi movement Naqshbandi-Haqqani. READ MORE

  5. 3. Pedagogic practice between tradition and renewal : A study of the new mathematics curriculum in Mozambique

    Author : Balbina Mutemba; Candia Morgan; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mathematics Education; Matematik och lärande;

    Abstract : The new school mathematics curriculum in Mozambique, introduced in 2008, is partly competency-based and it advocates a more student-centred pedagogy. The most salient innovative features are the incorporation of mathematical competencies related to the development of students’ reasoning skills, including argumentation, justification and analytical thinking, and the use of heuristic or inductive methods that promote meaningful students’ participation. READ MORE

  6. 4. Grappling with Patriarchies : Narrative Strategies of Resistance in Miriam Tlali's Writings

    Author : Christina Cullhed; Monica Fryckstedt; David Attwell; Elleke Boehmer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Literature; South African literature; narrative strategies; patriarchy; the black literary tradition; novelization; dialogism; fragmentation; gendered violence; sacrifice; rape; discursive taboo; whispering; distancing; Miriam Tlali; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study is the first one devoted solely to the writings of the South African black novelist Miriam Tlali. It argues that her works constitute literary resistance not only to apartheid, noted by previous scholars, but also to South African patriarchies. READ MORE

  7. 5. Voices of Muslim Feminists : Navigating Tradition, Authority and the Debate about Islam

    Author : Vanja Mosbach; Mia Lövheim; Tuula Sakaranaho; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Muslim Feminism; Islam; Religious Individualization; Scandinavia; Religion; Sociology of Religion; Religionssociologi;

    Abstract : Drawing on in-depth interviews with women in Sweden and the Øresund region who have publicly positioned themselves as believing Muslim feminists, this study explores what is involved in their self-positioning, how they conceptualize Muslim feminism, and construct its meaning. The accounts of the participants in this study revolve around three broad themes: First, the aspiration for self-representation as Muslims, second, the negotiations on gender equality and Islam, and third, the negotiation between internal and external religious authority. READ MORE