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  2. 1. The Government Used to Hide the Truth, But Now We Can Speak : Contemporary Esotericism in Ukraine 1986–2014

    Author : Kateryna Zorya; Per Faxneld; Simon Sorgenfrei; Oleg Yarosh; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; esotericism; occultism; magic; Ukrainian history; Soviet history; transmission of esoteric ideas; intelligentsia; intellectuals; history of ideas.; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    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

  4. 2. Creating Holy People and Places on the Periphery. A Study of the Emergence of Cults of Native Saints in the Ecclesiastical Provinces of Lund and Uppsala from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries : Att skapa heliga personer och platser i periferin: en studie om uppkomsten av inhemska helgonkulter i de lundensiska och uppsaliensiska kyrkoprovinserna, ca 1000–1300

    Author : Sara Ellis Nilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cults of saints; native saints; hagiography; liturgy; parchment fragments; conversion; Christianization; loca sanctorum; Middle Ages; Scandinavia; Micro-Christendom; unilocal; multilocal;

    Abstract : Holy people have been venerated in various forms by all religions and ideologies throughout history. Christianity is no exception with the development of the cults of saints beginning shortly after its formation. By the time Christianity reached Scandinavia, saints’ cults had been fully integrated into the Roman administrative structure. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Memory of Meanings : The Images of Jewish-Catholic Relations in Interwar Lublin in Oral Histories

    Author : Magdalena Dziaczkowska; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jewish-Christian relationss; Polish-Jewish relations; memory; interreligious relations; oral history; lived religion; antisemitism; interwar; holocaust; Jewish-Catholic relations;

    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

  6. 4. Rethinking the Gospel of Truth : A Study of its Eastern Valentinian Setting

    Author : Jörgen Magnusson; Gabriella Gustafsson; Anders Hultgård; Birger Pearson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gospel of Truth; Nag Hammadi; Valentinianism; Gnostic; Gnosticism; early Christianity; Coptic; history of religions; text linguistics; late Antiquity; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Abstract : Already in the second century, the Church Father Irenaeus warned against reading the Gospel of Truth that was used among the so-called Valentinians. For more than one and a half millennium GospTruth was lost until in the 1950s a Coptic text was discovered that could be a translation of that work both loved and hated. READ MORE

  7. 5. "God Wants It!" : The Ideology of Martyrdom of the Hebrew Crusade Chronicles and Its Jewish and Christian Background

    Author : Lena Roos; Anders Hultgård; Katrin Almbladh; Stefan Schreiner; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of religions; Martyrdom; First Crusade; Judaism; religious change; inter-religious relations; persecutions of Jews; suicide; infanticide; forced conversion; Religionshistoria; History of religion; Religionshistoria; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with the ideology of martyrdom of the Hebrew Chronicles which were written in response to the persecutions of the Rhineland Jews during the First Crusade in 1096. The Chronicles describe how thousands of Jews died, some of whom were killed by the crusaders, others killed each other or committed suicide rather than being forcibly bap­tized or killed by the crusaders. READ MORE