Search for dissertations about: "Sacred Space"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words Sacred Space.

  2. 1. The Presence of the Absent. Memorials and Places of Ritual

    Author : Anna Petersson; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; memorial; death; cemetery; space; profane; praesentia; symbol; place; private; sacred; public; ritual; body;

    Abstract : Memorials and places of ritual, such as funeral monuments, roadside memorials and cemeteries, can be said to reveal the politics of religious space as in the tension between sacred and secular and between private and public interests. At the same time they also reflect a given society’s religious structures, cultural differences and social orderings, as well as the changes in these matters over time. READ MORE

  4. 2. Walking on the Pages of the Word of God : Self, Land, and Text Among Evangelical Volunteers in Jerusalem

    Author : ARON ENGBERG; Mika Vähäkangas; James S. Bielo; Simon Coleman; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Agency; Anthropology of Christianity; Christian ZIonism; Evangelicalism; Identity; Israel; Language Ideology; Literalism; Materiality; Mediation; Narrative; Sacred Space; Volunteering;

    Abstract : During the last thirty years, the Evangelical relationship with the State of Israel has drawn much academic and popular attention, particularly from historical, theological, and political perspectives. This dissertation engages with this literature but also complements it with an ethnographic account of the discursive practices of Evangelical Zionists through which, it is suggested, much of the religious significance of the contemporary state is being produced. READ MORE

  5. 3. Inside the Guru's Gate : Ritual Uses of Texts among the Sikhs in Varanasi

    Author : Kristina Myrvold; Tord Olsson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; anthropomorfism; personification; liturgies; ritual practices; religious worship; sacred places; gurdwara; migration; counter-narrative; emic historiography; speech act theory; ritual studies; oral tradition; performance studies; guru; holy scriptures; Adi Granth; Guru Granth; Benares; Varanasi; Punjab; Sikhism; Sikhs; Religious Studies and Theology; Religion och teologi; social agency; Övriga religioner; Humanities; Humaniora; rites of passage; festivals; rites of affliction; Other Religions; religious education; Religionsvetenskap;

    Abstract : Summary: For religious Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib is a holy scripture which enshrines ontologically divine words and the teaching and revelatory experiences of historical human Gurus. Simultaneously the Sikhs have taken the concept of a sacred scripture much further than any other religious community by treating the Guru Granth Sahib as a living Guru invested with spiritual authority and agency to guide humans and establish relationships to the divine. READ MORE

  6. 4. Entering the Holy Place in Syriac Orthodox Liturgy : A Ritual and Theological Analysis

    Author : Gabriel Bar-Sawme; Ninna Edgardh Beckman; Kathleen McVey; Michael Hjälm; Bryan Spinks; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Syriac Orthodox liturgy; rite of entrance; ritual theory; Ronald Grimes; Victor Turner; liturgical studies; liturgics; liturgical history.; Kyrkovetenskap; Ecclesiology;

    Abstract : Questions concerning sacred spaces and their relationship to ritual is of interest to historians of religion and others as well. How sacred spaces emerge and are constructed and what relationship they have to rituals are some of the areas that are dealt with in this study in relation to Syriac Orthodox liturgy. READ MORE

  7. 5. From Rural Gift to Urban Commodity : Traditional Medicinal Knowledge and Socio-spatial Transformation in the Eastern Lake Victoria Region

    Author : Ouma Anne; Gunnar Malmberg; Aina Tollefsen; Linda Helgesson; Stacey Langwick; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Eastern Lake Victoria Region; Traditional Medicinal knowledge; Traditional Healers; Youth; Inter-generational learning processes; commodification and commercialization; gift; Socio-spatial transformation; rural-urban; gender; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : As we celebrate all the dynamic and dramatic improvements in human health care in the 21st century, life in much of Africa begins with and is sustained with the support of traditional medicinal knowledge. Research on traditional medicinal knowledge (TMK) is extensive, but rather few studies have been written about Traditional Healers' (THs') own perceptions about TMK and practices in relation to changing societal dynamics. READ MORE