Search for dissertations about: "contemporary esotericism"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words contemporary esotericism.

2. 1. The Government Used to Hide the Truth, But Now We Can Speak : Contemporary Esotericism in Ukraine 1986–2014

   Author : Kateryna Zorya; Per Faxneld; Simon Sorgenfrei; Oleg Yarosh; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; esotericism; occultism; magic; Ukrainian history; Soviet history; transmission of esoteric ideas; intelligentsia; intellectuals; history of ideas.; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Abstract : The dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991, marked the end of what has been called the most extensive sociological experiment in history. Newly formed post-Soviet states found themselves in a state of total anomie—a society-wide collapse of social norms. READ MORE

4. 2. Arts and Crafts Divine : Teaching and Learning Ritual Magic in Sodalitas Rosae Crucis

   Author : Olivia Cejvan; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; religionsantropologi; Ritual Studies; Levd religion; magi; Esoterism; Contemporary esotericism; anthropology of religion; ritual magic; Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; Social Learning Theory; contemporary esotericism; initiation; narrative; spirituality; lived religion; ritual studies;

   Abstract : This is an anthropological study of teaching and learning as it unfolds in a contemporary esoteric society in Sweden, the Sodalitas Rosae Crucis (SRC), founded in 2002. It perpetuates the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an influential esoteric society instituted in Victorian London. READ MORE

5. 3. On the Good Faith : A Fourfold Discursive Construction of Zoroastrianism in Contemporary Russia

   Author : Anna Tessmann; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Zoroastrianism; Russia; new religious movement; mass culture; esotericism; discourse; science; new mass media; literature;

   Abstract : Zoroastrianism, a religion originating in the ancient East and having survived to the present day, is currently being practiced on a very small scale throughout the whole world. Since the early 1990s there has been a gradually increasing public interest in Zoroastrianism in Russia and some of the former Soviet republics where small pockets of new non-ethnic Zoroastrians have sprung up. READ MORE

6. 4. The Eloquent Blood : The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism

   Author : Manon Hedenborg White; Mattias Gardell; Henrik Bogdan; Ulrika Dahl; Egil Asprem; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Western esotericism; occultism; magic; gender; sexuality; queer; queer theory; femininity; femininities; Thelema; Aleister Crowley; Ordo Templi Orientis; Babalon; Scarlet Woman; Luce Irigaray; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

   Abstract : The study analyses the changing construction of femininities and feminine sexuality in interpretations of the goddess Babalon, a central deity in Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) esoteric religion Thelema. Femininity has occupied a problematic position in feminist theory, frequently associated with lack, artifice, and restriction. READ MORE

7. 5. Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age

   Author : Olav Hammer; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; discourse; anthroposophy; discursive strategy; disembedding; emic historiography; globalization; late modernity; movement text; New Age; reflexivity; religious experience; scientism; secularization; sociocognitive analysis; tradition; theosophy; Theology; Western esotericism; Teologi;

   Abstract : The study addresses the question of how religious creativity in the West manages to adapt to the forces of modernity. The empirical data are drawn from a set of historically and thematically related movements, from late nineteenth century theosophy to the contemporary New Age.The dissertation is divided into three main sections. READ MORE