Search for dissertations about: "lived Islam"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words lived Islam.

2. 1. Ramadan in Java : The Joy and Jihad of Ritual Fasting

   Author : André Möller; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; traweh; tarawih; holy month; Blora; Yogyakarta; anthropology; lived Islam; written Islam; normative Islam; jihad; Muslim ritual; Java; Muslim; religion; Indonesia; Islam in Indonesia; Islam in Java; Ramadan; fasting; slametan; ruwahan; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

   Abstract : FASTING DURING THE holy month of Ramadan is both a joy and a jihad for the Islamic community in Java, and it is arguably the most highly esteemed Muslim ritual in Indonesia (and beyond). To be given the opportunity to abstain from food, drink and sexual relations from the early morning hours until sunset during an entire month in a tropical climate - only to fill the nights with additional and supererogatory Ramadanic rituals - is thus waited upon each year and seen as a true blessing. READ MORE

4. 2. 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

5. 3. American Medina: A Study of the Sunni Muslim Immigrant Communities in Chicago

   Author : Garbi Schmidt; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Non-Christian religions; institution; authority; globalization; migration; objectification; Chicago; Íslam; United States; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

   Abstract : Sunni Muslims have immigrated to and lived in Chicago for more than a hundred years. In her book Schmidt seeks, on basis of two periods of extended fieldwork, to provide a description of some activist strata of these religious communities. READ MORE

6. 4. 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

7. 5. Universal Burdens : Stories of (Un)Freedom from the Unitarian Universalist Association, The MOVE Organization, and Taqwacore

   Author : Anthony Fiscella; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Unitarian Universalist Association; Decolonialism; Inclusivity; Democracy; Human rights; Un Freedom; Unfreedom; Freedom; Liberation; Liberty; UUA; MOVE Organization; Philadelphia; Virginia; Taqwacore; Critical Religion Theory; History of religion; Islam; American Muslims; Anarchism; Anarchists; Punk rock; Hardcore; Social Movements; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Jiddu Krishnamurti; Zen; Imperialism; Cognitive dissonance; Racism; Indigenous peoples; First Nations; Colonialism; Critical pedagogy; Critical race studies;

   Abstract : Zen Buddhists have long given the following advice to attain liberation: “Eat when you’re hungry. Sleep when you’re tired.” In other words: “Freedom” is the “knowledge of necessity” (Hegel, Marx, and Engels). READ MORE