Search for dissertations about: "Ritual Strategies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Ritual Strategies.

2. 1. The Vulnerable Power of Worship A Study of a Power Approach to Contextualization in Christian Mission

   Author : Mats Rydinger; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religious Studies and Theology; Ritual Strategies; Religious Field; Power negotiation; Mission; Contextualization; Missio Dei; Religion och teologi;

   Abstract : This dissertation deals with the process of contextualizing the Christian discourse with a specific focus on worship and power negotiation. The study is based on literature, interviews and approximately six months of fieldwork in the U.S. in the years 1996,1998, and 2004. READ MORE

4. 2. Managing Vulnerability : Everyday Interaction in Sheltered Accommodations

   Author : Richard Gäddman Johansson; Stina Bergman Blix; Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen; Karen Christensen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; vulnerability; social interaction; care and service provision; service users; support workers; sheltered accommodations; intellectual and developmental disabilities; LSS; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : The purpose of this dissertation is to develop our understanding of the performance and management of vulnerability in social interaction. The term vulnerability is used frequently within a wide range of scholarly fields, however common conceptions of vulnerability have been criticized for containing normative assumptions about our propensities for being exposed to and capabilities for dealing with adverse events and experiences. READ MORE

5. 3. "We Are In-Between". : Health-seeking, Gender and Authority in a Charismatic Church in Mbeya, Tanzania

   Author : Lotta Gammelin; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; health-seeking; gender; health-seeking nomads; Faith-healing; Medical pluralism; authority; Pentecostal charismatic Christianity; spirit possession; agency; Spiritual warfare; suffering; motherhood; theological ethnography; Tanzania;

   Abstract : This study examines health-seeking, healing practices, gender and authority in a charismatic, locally founded church, the International Church for Healing and Glory (ICHG) in Mbeya, Tanzania. Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork carried out in 2013 and 2014, it addresses the situation of people who resort to faith-healing in a medically pluralistic context. READ MORE

6. 4. Sagali and the Kula : A Regional Systems Analysis of the Massim

   Author : Johnny Persson; Socialantropologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political organization; exchange systems; structural transformations; reproductive models; regional analysis; kula; Trobriands; Massim; Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

   Abstract : This thesis is concerned with developing a consistent regional perspective on the Massim peoples of southeastern Papua New Guinea, a task largely neglected by earlier anthropological studies, it is claimed, or, when sometimes attempted, unsuccessfully accomplished for a number of reasons, both methodological and theoretical. The author uses a comparative approach for investigating a selection of Massim societies. READ MORE

7. 5. Creating and establishing a positive care relationship between nurses, patients and relatives : An ethnographic study of encounters at a department of medicine for older people

   Author : Anette Johnsson; Sandra Pennbrant; Åse Boman; Petra Wagman; Birgitta Bisholt; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Care relationship; communication; ethnographic approach; nurses; interactional perspective; older patients; relatives; social interaction; sociocultural perspective; triad encounter;

   Abstract : Background and aim: Numerous encounters take place in the healthcare sector every day. Although the encounters should be conducted in a safe and respectful manner, an increased number of complaints about communication and interaction have been reported to the Health and Social Care Inspectorate. READ MORE