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Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words HUMANITIES and RELIGION Religion Theology Sociology of religion.

  2. 1. Religion, rock och pluralism : En religionssociologisk studie av kristen diskurs om rockmusik

    Author : Andreas Häger; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; discourse; institutional Christianity; legitimation; pluralism; popular culture; popular music; qualitative analysis; religion; religious symbols; rock music; symbolic universe; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; religionssociologi; The Sociology of Religion;

    Abstract : Rock music has during all of its almost 50 years of existence been the subject of criticism and debate. Much of this criticism has risen from religious circles. But also in these circles, rock music has its advocates. This thesis studies the reactions to rock music by spokespersons for institutional Christianity. READ MORE

  4. 2. Synagogue and Separation: A Social-Scientific Approach to the Formation of Christianity in Antioch

    Author : Magnus Zetterholm; Bibelvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jewish-Christian relations; partings of the ways; Ignatius; sociology; Matthew; synagogue; hermeneutics; anti-Semitism; Jewish-Christianity; Gentile-Christianity; resource mobilisation; social movement; collective action; migration; assimilation; General; Kristen teologi allmän; systematic and practical Christian theology; systematisk och praktisk ; Antioch; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : This book attempts to answer the question of how it is possible that Christianity in the beginning of the second century C.E. had developed into a non-Jewish, Gentile religion. READ MORE

  5. 3. Flannery O'Connor's View of the Modern Alienation from Sacramental Religion

    Author : Inger B Törnqvist; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; secular humanism; Social Darwinism; Progressivism; Southern literature; natural theology; Southern Protestant fundamentalism; “Americanism Debate“; modern gnosticism; gnostic; Jansenism; Neoscholasticism; American Catholicism; Sacramental religion; O’Connor; Joyce; psychology; sociology; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia;

    Abstract : Mary Flannery O’Connor (1925-64) was born in Savannah, Georgia as the only child of the American Irish Catholics Edward Francis O’Connor, Jr. and Regina Cline O’Connor. In 1952 her first novel Wise Blood, in 1955 the short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and in 1960 her second novel, The Violent Bear It Away were published. READ MORE

  6. 4. Muslim Rights and Plights. The Religious Liberty Situation of a Minority in Sweden

    Author : Jonas Alwall; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theology; Religious Culture; Religious Minorities; Muslims; Islam; Integration; Immigrant Policy; Immigration; Minority Rights; Religious liberty; Human Rights; Teologi; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with the religious liberty situation of the Muslim minority in Sweden. The Muslim minority has grown considerably in recent decades as a consequence of labour and refugee immigration of a large scale, which has caused a change in Swedish society from an etnically, culturally and religously homogeneous situation to one of a significant heterogeneity. READ MORE

  7. 5. Prospects for Theology in Peacebuilding : A Theological Analysis of the Just Peace Concept in the Textual Process towards an International Ecumenical Peace Declaration, World Council of Churches 2008-2011

    Author : Sara Gehlin; Mika Vähäkangas; Geraldine S Smyth; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Peace-building; Ecumenical movement; Religion and sociology; Church and social problems;

    Abstract : This study takes its starting point in the questions of whether and how theology might serve as a faith-basedpeacebuilding resource. Based on an exploration of the textual process towards an international ecumenicaldeclaration on just peace in the World Council of Churches, it suggests that theology can indeed serve as sucha resource and it sketches how theology can make such a contribution. READ MORE