Search for dissertations about: "Olav Hammer"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Olav Hammer.

2. 1. Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age

   Author : Olav Hammer; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; discourse; anthroposophy; discursive strategy; disembedding; emic historiography; globalization; late modernity; movement text; New Age; reflexivity; religious experience; scientism; secularization; sociocognitive analysis; tradition; theosophy; Theology; Western esotericism; Teologi;

   Abstract : The study addresses the question of how religious creativity in the West manages to adapt to the forces of modernity. The empirical data are drawn from a set of historically and thematically related movements, from late nineteenth century theosophy to the contemporary New Age.The dissertation is divided into three main sections. READ MORE