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  2. 6. Religious Facilitation Through Intense Liturgical Participation : A Quasi-Experimental Study of Swedish Pilgrims to Taizé

    Author : Jonas Eek; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Familiarity; Francis Scale of Attitude towards Christianity; Religious Facilitation; Taizé; Ritual; Intrinsic; Attitude Change; Keywords: Liturgy; Pilgrimage; General; systematic and practical Christian theology; Kristen teologi allmän; systematisk och praktisk ; Theology; Teologi;

    Abstract : A considerably small amount of empirical research was found on the process of religious facilitation through liturgical participation and worship (cf., Heimbrock & Boudewijnse, 1990; Wikström, 1994a, 1994b). Using a quasi-experimental design, the present investigation therefore addressed this issue. READ MORE

  4. 7. Reconciliation and the Search for a Shared Moral Landscape – An exploration based upon a study of Northern Ireland and South Africa

    Author : Maria Ericson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; global ethics; dialogue; General; reconciliation; systematic and practical Christian theology; systematisk och praktisk ; Kristen teologi allmän; Northern Ireland; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Theology; Teologi; peace building; conflict resolution; justice; ecumenism; forgiveness; South Africa; Truth and Reconciliation Commission;

    Abstract : In Northern Ireland and South Africa obstacles to reconciliation were found in these elements of a “moral landscape”: – Experiences of trauma, separation and inequalities, – Divergent views of the conflict and of “the other”, – Opposing identifications and loyalties, – Norms for interaction, – Contestant interpretations of values such as “peace” and “justice”. This study describes how these obstacles have been addressed in: 1) Efforts, particularly by ecumenical groups, to bridge the Catholic/Protestant divide in Northern Ireland. READ MORE

  5. 8. Gardens in the Wasteland : Christian Formation in Three Swedish Church Plants

    Author : Björn Asserhed; Joel Halldorf; Stefan Paas; Peter Ward; Avdelningen för religionsvetenskap och teologi Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Church planting; Christian formation; Secularisation; Practical theology; Situated learning theory; Identity; församlingsplantering; kristen formation; sekularisering; praktisk teologi; situerat lärande; identitet; Practical Theology including Religious Behavioural Sciences; Praktisk teologi med religionsbeteendevetenskap;

    Abstract : Gardens in the Wasteland is an ethnographic study of Christian formation within three Swedish church plants working against a backdrop of advanced secularisation. The thesis analyses the formative practices employed by these church plants with the intention of forming persons towards a lived Christian identity. READ MORE

  6. 9. Promise, Protection, and Prosperity. Aspects of the "Shield" as a Religious Relational Metaphor in an Ancient Near Eastern Perspective. An Iconographical and Textual Analysis

    Author : Arne Wiig; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theology; Assyria; Egypt; Hebrew Bible; Ancient Near East; relational metaphor; shield metaphor; Metaphor theory; shield; Teologi;

    Abstract : This thesis discusses the religious metaphorical use of different words for "shield" in the Hebrew Bible and Egyptian and Assyrian literature. The literary contexts in the analysis are delimited based on the observation that they share a similar view of divine intervention in war and an analogous view of the enemy. READ MORE

  7. 10. Religion in Dialogue with Late Modern Society: A Constructive Contribution to a Christian Spirituality Informed by Buddhist-Christian Encounters

    Author : Ann Aldén; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Thich Nhat Hanh; Aloysius Pieris; Constructive Theology; Buddhist-Christian; Christian; Buddhism; Spirituality; Christian Spirituality; Society; Religion and Modernity; Modernity; Religion; Late Modern; Dialogue; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; General; systematic and practical Christian theology; Kristen teologi allmän; systematisk och praktisk ;

    Abstract : In this dissertation I make a constructive contribution to a Christian spirituality for late modern religiously plural society. The words ‘a constructive contribution’ designate the methodological approach of the study. READ MORE