Search for dissertations about: "Religion"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 992 swedish dissertations containing the word Religion.

  2. 21. Phenomenology and the making of the world

    Author : Dag Hedin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; experience; lived experience; phenomenon; phenomenology; consciousness; intentionality; intersubjectivity; world; ego; being; self-understanding; existence; life-world; view of life; dialogue; epoche; empathy; Dasein; hermeneutics; realism; anti-realism; E. Husserl; M. Heidegger; G. van der Leeuw; W. Dilthey; R. Rorty; H. Putnam; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Philosophy of Religion; religionsfilosofi;

    Abstract : trictions provided by language and knowledge. It is also shown how this creates difficulties as to the claim within religion to express what is beyond the known and not directlyavailable by means of ordinary language. The author focuses on ideas within the phenomenology of religion of how to cope withthis tension. READ MORE

  4. 22. Public Religions in Swedish Media : A Study of Religious Actors on Three Newspaper Debate Pages 2001-2011

    Author : Marta Axner; Mia Lövheim; Anders Sjöborg; Knut Lundby; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; religion; media; public sphere; public religion; content analysis; mixed-methods; media logic; public debate; secularization; post-secular; mediatization; Religionssociologi; Sociology of Religion;

    Abstract : This study addresses issues concerning religion in the public sphere, brought about by the debates over the perceived resurgence of religion and the post-secular. The aim is to analyze the participation of religious actors in the public, using three newspaper debate pages as the empirical material. READ MORE

  5. 23. Intersecting Identities: Young People, Religion, and Interaction on the Internet

    Author : Mia Lövheim; Alf G. Linderman; Knut Lundby; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sociology of religion; Internet; religion; identity construction; young people; discourse; late modernity; media ethnography; religious autobiographies; repertoire of possibilities; arena of circulation; gender; Religionssociologi; Sociology of religion; Religionssociologi;

    Abstract : The growth of the Internet gave rise to many anticipations and apprehensions of how the new medium would affect the construction of meaning, individual identities, and social interaction. As humanity’s oldest expression of existential meaning, religion provides a challenging case for such studies. READ MORE

  6. 24. The Bambatha Watershed : Swedish Missionaries, African Christians and an Evolving Zulu Church in Rural Natal and Zululand 1902-1910

    Author : Lars Berge; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; South Africa--church history--1902-1910; Zulus African people ; Church and State-South Africa; nationalism and religion; Church of SwedenMission; evangelists; missionaries; Swedish; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Missionsvetenskap; Studies of Missions;

    Abstract : This study examines the Church of Sweden Mission and the encounter between Swedish missionaries, African Christians and evangelists in Natal and Zululand in the early twentieth century. The ambition with the present study is to demonstrate that the mission enterprise was dependent on and an integral part of developments in society at large. READ MORE

  7. 25. Foundations for knowing God : Bernard Lonergan's foundations for knowledge of God and the challenge from antifoundationalism

    Author : Ulf Jonsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; B Lonergan; knowledge of God; foundationalism; antifoundationalism; cognitional theory; epistemic justification; transcendental method; basic beliefs; religious experience; Aquinas; Aristotle; H Putnam; R Rorty; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Philosophy of Religion; religionsfilosofi;

    Abstract : This study deals with the theory of knowledge of God elaborated by the Canadian theologian and philosopher Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984). Lonergan's theory of knowledge of God, or his "philosophy of God", has already been the subject-matter of a number of doctoral dissertations. READ MORE