Search for dissertations about: "cult"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 45 swedish dissertations containing the word cult.

2. 1. Cargo Cult in Agile Software Development

   Author : Tanja Elina Havstorm; Fredrik Karlsson; Karin Hedström; Shang Gao; Kai Wistrand; Erik Perjons; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agile software development; cargo cult; deviations; ethnography; SDMCCT; social action theory; software development method; work motivation theory; theorizing;

   Abstract : Software development (SD) projects are complex endeavors, and organizations employ software development methods (SDMs) both to add structure and to propel their projects. Nowadays, agile SDMs are the most used methods. READ MORE

4. 2. Gates and Gods. Cults in the City Gates of Iron Age Palestine. An Investigation of the Archaeological and Biblical Sources

   Author : Tina Haettner Blomquist; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; 2 Kgs 23:8; 15-16; 1 Kgs 22:10-12; 22-25; 18-19; 1 Sam 9:12-14; Num 5:11-31; Exod 22:6-11; Yotvata; Horvat Uza; Timna Site 30; Horvat Teman; Horvat Radum; Tell en-Nasbeh; Mezad Hazeva; Megiddo; Lachish; Tell el-Farah North; Dan; Chinnereth; Bethsaida; Beersheba; Palestine; Iron Age; cult; religion; archaeology; Old Testament; Bible; Hebrew Bible; Ezek 8:3; 5; Ezek 16:24; 31.; Bibelvetenskap;

   Abstract : The present study deals with the question of cult locales in city gate contexts in Iron Age Palestine. Both archaeological and biblical sources are analysed in order to determine the presence of gate cult locales and indicate some directions of interpretation. READ MORE

5. 3. In search of Dionysos. Reassessing a Dionysian context in early Rome

   Author : Carina Håkansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Dionysos; Dionysus; Roman religion; Archaic religion; paradigm shift; satyrs; liminality; iconography; ritual; cult; performance; Fufluns; Liber; Bacchus; oral tradition; antefix; small finds; intercontextual;

   Abstract : In the present study the possibility of an early appearance of the god Dionysos and his sphere in archaic Rome, in the decades around 500 BC, will be examined. In early scholarship, rooted in the 19th century, the phenomenon of Dionysian ecstatic rites, cults, and satyr-plays in Roman society was denied. READ MORE

6. 4. The Lenaia vases revisited : image, ritual and Dionysian women

   Author : Viveca Olsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Attic pottery; black figure vases; red figure vases; Lenaia vases; stamnos; iconography; Dionysus; Dionysian women; maenads; Delphi; Thyiades; Greek cult; cult image; ritual; Etruria;

   Abstract : This study deals with the so-called Lenaia vases, a group of fifty vases which were painted with similar imagery in Attica during 490-420 BC. The motifs of these vases depict "Dionysian" women, drinking wine and sacrificing bloody and bloodless offerings before a cult image of Dionysos. READ MORE

7. 5. The Performative Structure : Ritualizing the pyramid of Pepy I

   Author : Nils Billing; Eva Hellman; Harold Hays; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Pyramid Texts; monumentality; iconicity; performativity; Pepy I; reconstitution; manifestation; resurrection; ascension; ritual agency; mortuary temple; cult; pyramid; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

   Abstract : This study investigates the ancient Egyptian pyramid complex as a ritualized structure. In accordance with an indigenous cultural pattern, the category of an eternal architecture had been created at the beginning of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2700 B.C. READ MORE