Search for dissertations about: "magi"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the word magi.

2. 1. Bodies of vital matter: Notions of life force and transcendence in traditional southern Italy

   Author : Per Binde; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; socialanropologi; Italien; magi; övertro; social anthropology; Italy; symbolism; cosmology; Roman Catholicism; social organization; vitality; folk medicine; burial practices; death; cult of saints; the evil eye; witches;

   Abstract : Bodies of Vital Matter presents an innovative study that explores folk beliefs relating to the vital force of the human body and to the transcendence of the corporal. The time frame is the period from the unification of Italy to the Second World War. There are three principal themes of investigation. READ MORE

4. 2. Arts and Crafts Divine : Teaching and Learning Ritual Magic in Sodalitas Rosae Crucis

   Author : Olivia Cejvan; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; religionsantropologi; Ritual Studies; Levd religion; magi; Esoterism; Contemporary esotericism; anthropology of religion; ritual magic; Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; Social Learning Theory; contemporary esotericism; initiation; narrative; spirituality; lived religion; ritual studies;

   Abstract : This is an anthropological study of teaching and learning as it unfolds in a contemporary esoteric society in Sweden, the Sodalitas Rosae Crucis (SRC), founded in 2002. It perpetuates the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an influential esoteric society instituted in Victorian London. READ MORE

5. 3. The Message of a Mitsvah: The Mezuzah in Rabbinic Literature

   Author : Eva-Maria Jansson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Non-Christian religions; Rabbinic literature; addition; notion; mezuzah; mitsvah; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

   Abstract : The present study deals with different aspects of the mitsvat mezuzah in Rabbinic literature from the first to the sixteenth centuries, with some emphasis on the medieval sources. Through a charting of statements regarding the mezuzah as an object, and the mitsvat mezuzah and its fulfilment, an overview is given of the development of the mezuzah and the perception of it. READ MORE

6. 4. The role of angiomotin in endothelial cell motility and cell-cell junction formation

   Author : Anders Bratt; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Angiogenesis; cancer; angiostatin; angiomotin; cell motility cell-cell junction; tight junction; adherens junction;

   Abstract : Clinical as well as pre-clinical data show that tumor growth can be restrained by inhibiting angiogenesis. We have been investigating the mechanism of action of angiostatin, an inhibitor of angiogenesis, in order to design novel therapies against cancer. READ MORE

7. 5. The Book of Hours of Johannete Ravenelle and the Parisian Book Illumination Around 1400

   Author : Eva Lq Sandgren; Susie Nash; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; Illumination of Books and Manuscripts; Miniature Painting; Painting; Gothic; Book Production; Medieval; Artists’ workshops; Illuminators; Books of Hours; Manuscript Design; Art Patronage; Jean de France; duc de Berry; Johannete Ravenelle; late 14th Century; 1390–1410; the Master of BN fr. 159; Uppsala university Library ms UUB C 517e; Petites Heures de Jean de Berry BN lat. 18014 ; Iconography; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap; Konstvetenskap; History of Art;

   Abstract : Within the French book of hours C 517e in the manuscript collection of the University Library in Uppsala, the name of the owner, Johannete Ravenelle, appears in a prayer. Examination of the decoration, miniatures and texts demonstrates that ms C 517e is consistent with Parisian art and books of hours around 1400. READ MORE