Search for dissertations about: "Jan-Åke Alvarsson"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words Jan-Åke Alvarsson.
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1. Negotiating Involuntary Resettlement : A study of local bargaining during the construction of the Zimapán dam
Abstract : This dissertation seeks to present and analyze the negotiation process between the Mexican Power Board (CFE) and the peasants of Ejido Vista Hermosa, who were displaced by the building of the Zimapán dam in central Mexico. I use these negotiations as a focal point to identify the strategies, the reasoning, the priorities, and the conflicts of interest of the two main actors in the resettlement project. READ MORE
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2. Visions of Apostolic Mission : Scandinavian Pentecostal Mission to 1935
Abstract : Using methods of Cultural Mapping, Scandinavian Pentecostal publications and archival sources were examined regarding mission. Working toward “Apostolic Mission,” in addition to biblical texts Pentecostals used models adapted from the Pietist, Methodist, Baptist and especially the Holiness Revivals. READ MORE
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3. Outside the World : Cohesion and Deviation among Old Colony Mennonites in Bolivia
Abstract : This study is about community maintenance and social cohesion among Old Colony Mennonites in Bolivia. The Old Colony Mennonites constitute a Christian minority that traces its origin to the European Anabaptist movement of the 16th century. READ MORE
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4. "Walking in the Spirit" : The Complexity of Belonging in Two Pentecostal Churches in Durban, South Africa
Abstract : Drawing on anthropological fieldwork carried out in the two Pentecostal congregations Red Hill and Olive Tree in Durban, South Africa, this dissertation discusses the complexity of the experience of belonging among the members. Red Hill is a ‘coloured’ congregation, while Olive Tree is ‘white’; a fact that in present-day South Africa still is of significance for the experience of belonging. READ MORE
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5. African Women and Religious Change: A study of the Western Igbo of Nigeria with a special focus on Asaba town
Abstract : This study focuses on a small ethnic group in the western part of Igboland called Asaba. It describes how the religious and socio-political role of women has changed, due to colonialism, modernisation, Western education and Christianity, which were brought by the groups of Europeans and Americans, who penetrated Africa in the nineteenth century. READ MORE