Search for dissertations about: "sacrifice"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 52 swedish dissertations containing the word sacrifice.

  2. 1. Sacrifice and Symbol : Biblical Shelamim in a Ritual Perspective

    Author : Martin Modéus; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; slmm; Blood; Legitimacy of ritual; Centralization of cult; Glossation; Todah; Neder; Nedabah; Milluim; Zebah; Zebah shelamim; Shelamim; Sacrifice; marking and defining symbols; Legitimizing; Interpretation of ritual; focusing and defining; Causa; Ugarit; the Jerusalem temple; Bible; Bibelvetenskap;

    Abstract : For the sacrifice shelamim in the Hebrew Bible, scholars have suggested a number of different interpretations and uses. This sacrifice also had an ambiguous role in Israelite culture. READ MORE

  4. 2. The efficacy of sacrifice : correspondences in the Ŗgvedic Brāhmaņas

    Author : Clemens Cavallin; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : Sacrifice; Veda; brahmana; efficacy; ritual; ontology; metaphysics; breath; correspondence; nominal sentence; identification;

    Abstract : Sacrifice is a major topic in the study of religious rituals, and one of the issues debated is its possible efficacy. In this study, the need for multiple approaches is acknowledged, but the focus is on the world-view in which a sacrificial practice is embedded, and more specifically on the basic ontological questions that are of importance for it. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Legacy of the Jaguar Prophet : An Exploration of Yucatec Maya Religion and Historiography

    Author : Bodil Liljefors Persson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theology; Ballgame; Sacrifice; Mythology; Rituals; Books of Chilam Balam; Historiography; History; Prophecy; Maya; Religion; Teologi;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with Maya religion and history. The Books of Chilam Balam is the collective title of a body of texts ascribed to the Jaguar Prophet. 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. The sacrificial rituals of Greek hero-cults in the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods

    Author : Gunnel Ekroth; Robert Parker; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Greek religion; hero-cults; Archiac; Classical; animal sacrifice; libation; theoxenia; blood; holocaust; altar; cult of the dead; cult of the gods; ritual dining; antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History;

    Abstract : This study questions the traditional view of sacrifices in hero-cults during the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods (c. 700-300 BC) as consisting mainly in holocausts, rituals focusing on the blood of the animal victim and the presentation of meals, and rarely in thysia sacrifices followed by collective dining. READ MORE