Search for dissertations about: "Non-Christian religions"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 26 swedish dissertations containing the words Non-Christian religions.

  2. 21. Paul between Synagogue and State : Christians, Jews, and Civic Authorities in 1 Thessalonians, Romans, and Philippians

    Author : Mikael Tellbe; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of the Christian church; hono; honor discourse; parting of the ways; imperial cult; imperial ideology; Rome; civic authorities; synagogue; Josephus; Jewish rights; Diaspora Judaism; Jews; Christians; early church; Philippians; Romans; 1 Thessalonians; Paul; Bible; New Testament; Kristna kyrkans historia; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Bibelvetenskap;

    Abstract : When first-century gentile Christians withdrew from the traditional and civic Graeco-Roman cults and increasingly began to be identified by the Romans as not belonging to mainstream or common Judaism, they soon found themselves pressed "between synagogue and state." On the one side, the fact that they did not observe the Torah elicited hostility from Jews who did not want to be identified with a movement that in Roman eyes could be interpreted as seditious and thus jeopardize their own political and religious privileges. READ MORE

  4. 22. 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. 23. The Birth of Religion among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau

    Author : Inger Callewaert; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Herbal medicine 3.Modernisation; Divination; Ritual songs; Witchcraft; Ritual; Prophetic movement; Ancestor cult; Anthropology of Religion; Balanta 2.History of Religions; 1.West Africa; Guinea-Bissau; Gender; Theology; Teologi;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with a recent event within the history of religions, the rise and development of a non-Christian prophetic movement named Kiyang-yang within the oral, kinship and ancestor based society of the Balanta in Guinea-Bissau. Kiyang-yang is headed by young women and men under the leadership of a woman prophet. READ MORE

  6. 24. The Kakure Kirishitan of Ikitsuki Island : The End of a Tradition

    Author : Kristian Pella; Lena Roos; Kentaro Miyazaki; Mark Teuween; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Acculturation; Christianity; folk religion; gozensama; Ikitsuki; Japan; Kakure; Kakure Kirishitan; Kirishitan; Kirishitanism; Maria-Kannon; Senpuku; syncretism; tradition; tsumoto; underground Christian; Virgin Mary; Xavier.; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Abstract : The organization of the Kakure Kirishitan of Ikitsuki Island remained relatively intact until the end of the 1990s. Today it seems that this tradition is approaching its end. The Kakure Kirishitan have become a rapidly vanishing minority since much of the organized activities on the island have ceased to take place during the last decade. READ MORE

  7. 25. UAMSHO: A Theological Study of the Proclamation of the Revival Movement within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania

    Author : Anneth Nyagawa Munga; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; making; grace; authority; ability; charismata; morality; church discipline; the church; the Bible; holiness; salvation; over-pessimism; over-optimism; realization of sin; relapsing; demons; sin; crisis; the world; Satan; God; the Holy Spirit; Jesus Christ; General; systematic and practical Christian theology; Kristen teologi allmän; systematisk och praktisk ;

    Abstract : This thesis presents a theological study of the revival (Uamsho) movement within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT). This movement is part of the East African Revival Movement that began during the late 1920's within the Protestant churches in Rwanda, after which it spread to Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. READ MORE