Search for dissertations about: "HUMANITIES and RELIGION Religion Theology Church studies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the words HUMANITIES and RELIGION Religion Theology Church studies.

  2. 1. The church as nation : A study in ecclesiology and nationhood

    Author : Kjell Blückert; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; catholicity; church history; Church of Sweden; confessionalism; ecclesiology; folk church; J. A. Eklund; modernity; Nathan Söderblom; nationalism; theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Studies In Faiths and Ideologies; tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of nationalism and ecclesiology. These two fields are studiedcomparatively, with particular consideration of the Lutheran state church in Sweden. READ MORE

  4. 2. Sidama and Ethiopian : The emergence of the Mekane Yesus Church in Sidama

    Author : Arne Tolo; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Ethiopia; Sidama; Amhara; culture; religion; colonialism; modernisation; missionary movement; evangelical movement; revival; persecution; church growth; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; missionsvetenskap; missionsvetenskap;

    Abstract : The present work belongs to local African church history and international mission history.The author shows why and how the Sidama people in south Ethiopia became part of theevangelical movement. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Bambatha Watershed : Swedish Missionaries, African Christians and an Evolving Zulu Church in Rural Natal and Zululand 1902-1910

    Author : Lars Berge; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; South Africa--church history--1902-1910; Zulus African people ; Church and State-South Africa; nationalism and religion; Church of SwedenMission; evangelists; missionaries; Swedish; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Missionsvetenskap; Studies of Missions;

    Abstract : This study examines the Church of Sweden Mission and the encounter between Swedish missionaries, African Christians and evangelists in Natal and Zululand in the early twentieth century. The ambition with the present study is to demonstrate that the mission enterprise was dependent on and an integral part of developments in society at large. READ MORE

  6. 4. Från ritualiserad tradition till institutionaliserad religion : Strategier för maktlegitimering på Gotland under järnålder och medeltid

    Author : Torsten Blomkvist; Britt-Mari Näsström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Gotland; religion; ritualised tradition; ancestor worship; oral tradition; power; genealogies; legitimacy of power; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

    Abstract : This dissertation has two principal aims. The first is to critically discuss the concept of an ancient Scandinavian religion. The second one is to create, from the terms ritualised tradition and (institutionalised) religion a theory of social change on Gotland during the Late Iron Age and the Middle Ages. READ MORE

  7. 5. A Rhythm that Connects my Heart with God : Worship, Ritual and Pentecostal Spirituality as Theology

    Author : Martina Prosén; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pentecostal spirituality; Pentecostal theology; Charismatic Liturgy; Worship; Praise and Worship; Ritualization; Embodiment; Theologizing; Transformation; Progressive Pentecostalism; Nairobi; Kenya; African Church Music; Pentecostal dance; Pentecostal dress; Pentecostal music; Pentecostal use of Scripture; Oral theology; Sung theology; Empirical methods in theology; Mavuno Church; Christ is The Answer Ministries; CITAM;

    Abstract : This qualitative theological study seeks to shed light on pentecostal theology and spirituality through an investigation of worship as it is practiced in two urban pentecostal-charismatic churches in Nairobi, Kenya. The empirical data serve as a springboard for theological construction and interpretation from a pentecostal perspective. READ MORE