Search for dissertations about: "History of Religion"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 294 swedish dissertations containing the words History of Religion.
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6. The Memory of Meanings : The Images of Jewish-Catholic Relations in Interwar Lublin in Oral Histories
Abstract : This work explores narratives of Jewish-Catholic relations in interwar Lublin, as recalled by its Jewish and Catholic inhabitants by the end of their lives. Thus, it concerns both memory and intergroup relations and seeks to understand the attitudes towards the religious Other. READ MORE
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7. Making Place for Space : a History of 'Space Town' Kiruna 1943-2000
Abstract : Science and technology have a tendency to clump together in places where they spawn other forms of societal activities. Sometimes these places become famous through processes known as place-making, or the social construction of place. READ MORE
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8. On the Edge : The Concept of Progress in Bukhara during the Rule of the Later Manghits
Abstract : This work is a study of the concept of progress in Bukhara between approximately 1860 and 1920. It is based on unpublished and published sources from this period. READ MORE
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9. Uniformity or Diversity? : Facing Portrayals of Ganda Religion
Abstract : This study researches, in a primarily historiographical way, conforming as well as, and in particular, dissenting thought and behavioural dispositions in Ganda religion. It lets the Ganda's existence, by and large, speak for itself on this matter. This occurs in two major ways. READ MORE
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10. The Government Used to Hide the Truth, But Now We Can Speak : Contemporary Esotericism in Ukraine 1986–2014
Abstract : The dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991, marked the end of what has been called the most extensive sociological experiment in history. Newly formed post-Soviet states found themselves in a state of total anomie—a society-wide collapse of social norms. READ MORE