Search for dissertations about: "Religious Studies and Theology"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 145 swedish dissertations containing the words Religious Studies and Theology.

  2. 6. Varieties of Supernatural Experience : the Case of High-Functioning Autism

    Author : Ingela Visuri; Pehr Granqvist; David Thurfjell; Olov Dahlin; Andreas Roepstorff; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Autism; religious cognition; supernatural experience; invisible agency; parasocial relations; embodiment; bracketed ethnography; participatory autism research; atypical cognition; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Innovative Learning;

    Abstract : It is argued in the cognitive science of religion (CSR) that the empathic ability to ‘mindread’ others underpins  the experience of supernatural communication with gods, ghosts, and spirits. As autism is characterized by mentalizing difficulties, CSR scholars have expected autistic individuals would find supernatural agency incomprehensible. READ MORE

  4. 7. Perseverance without doctrine : Adorno, self-critique, and the ends of academic theology

    Author : Mattias Martinson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; academic theology; academy; Adorno Th. W.; aesthetics; critical theory; dialectics; dogmatism; fundamental theology; ideology; materialism; negativity; philosophy of music; self-critique; Tracy D; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Systematic theology; Systematisk teologi; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; Studies In Faiths and Ideologies;

    Abstract : The study approaches the question of the role and legitimacy of academic theology given a certain theoretical conception of the intellectual situation. From the perspective of a critical interpretation of some contemporary problems of theology, on the one hand, and some problematic aspects of secular thought, on the other, the study inquires into the notion of theology for a self-critical theoretical potential of general academic value. READ MORE

  5. 8. God as Problem and Possibility : A Critical Study of Gordon Kaufman's Thought toward a Spacious Theology

    Author : Kenneth Nordgren; Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm; Jan-Olav Henriksen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; the concept of God; constructive theology; Gordon Kaufman; theological method; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

    Abstract : The study investigates the American theologian Gordon D. Kaufman’s (born 1925) work, and focuses on the concept of God reflected in his theological method and construction. The examination of Kaufman’s thought implies an inquiry of methodological issues in contemporary academic theology and leads into discussion of central Christian ideas. READ MORE

  6. 9. Constructivism, Essentialism, and the Between : Human Being and Vulnerability in Judith Butler, Steven Pinker and Colin Gunton

    Author : Joseph Sverker; Mattias Martinson; Katarina Westerlund; Stephen R. Holmes; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Judith Butler; Steven Pinker; Colin Gunton; theological anthropology; social constructivism; social constructionism; biologism; essentialism; biologist essentialism; evolution; school; differentiation; christology; doctrine of the Trinity; interpellation; evolutionary psychology; nature nurture; vulnerability; body; individual; person; individualism; personalism; kenosis; self-giving; recognition; feminism; relational ontology; weak ontology; relations; relationality; time; freedom; performativity; culture; environment; dependence; independence; Systematisk teologi med livsåskådningsforskning; Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the division between biology and the social by means of Christian theology. The question is approached by reading and interacting critical theorist Judith Butler, psycholinguist Steven Pinker and theologian Colin Gunton.With Gunton the author argues that a relational, but ‘weak’, ontology is needed. READ MORE

  7. 10. Co-preaching : The Practice of Preaching in Digital Culture and Spaces

    Author : Frida Mannerfelt; Sune Fahlgren; Theo Pleizier; Avdelningen för religionsvetenskap och teologi Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; digital homiletics; online preaching; the practice of preaching; digital culture; the preaching event; Practical Theology including Religious Behavioural Sciences; Praktisk teologi med religionsbeteendevetenskap;

    Abstract : The purposes of this article-based thesis are to explore and understand preaching as a practice in general,and the practice of preaching in digital culture and spaces in particular. Informed by the practicetheory of Theodore Schatzki, it presents the results of a cross-case analysis of four di!erent case studiesof the practice of preaching in digital culture and spaces in Swedish protestant churches. READ MORE