Search for dissertations about: "dialogue of religious experience"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words dialogue of religious experience.

  2. 1. Contemplation et dialogue : Quelques exemples de dialogue entre spiritualités après le concile Vatican II : [examples of spiritualities in dialogue emerging after the Second Vatican Council]

    Author : Katrin Åmell; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Benedictine; contemplation; dialogue of religious experience; inculturation; interreligious dialogue; Japan; Monastic Interreligious Dialogue; zazen; zen; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Missionsvetenskap; Studies of Missions;

    Abstract : In the latter half of the 20th century interreligious dialogue has become a necessary and important feature in human co-existence. This study discusses the dialogue of religious experience. The essentials in this dialogue are mutual understandings of prayer and contemplation as practiced in differing religious and cultural contexts. READ MORE

  4. 2. 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

  5. 3. Phenomenology and the making of the world

    Author : Dag Hedin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; experience; lived experience; phenomenon; phenomenology; consciousness; intentionality; intersubjectivity; world; ego; being; self-understanding; existence; life-world; view of life; dialogue; epoche; empathy; Dasein; hermeneutics; realism; anti-realism; E. Husserl; M. Heidegger; G. van der Leeuw; W. Dilthey; R. Rorty; H. Putnam; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Philosophy of Religion; religionsfilosofi;

    Abstract : trictions provided by language and knowledge. It is also shown how this creates difficulties as to the claim within religion to express what is beyond the known and not directlyavailable by means of ordinary language. The author focuses on ideas within the phenomenology of religion of how to cope withthis tension. READ MORE

  6. 4. Other Voices : A Study of Christian Feminist Approaches to Religious Plurality East and West

    Author : Helene Egnell; Sven-Erik Brodd; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Ursula King; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Missionary studies; feminism; feminist theology; interfaith dialogue; intercultural theology; theology of religions; theology of religious difference; the Other; change; relation; margins; anti-Judaism; Women s Interfaith Journey; Gabriele Dietrich; Chung Hyun Kyung; Kwok Pui-lan; Wong Wai-ching; Diana L. Eck; Rosemary Radford Ruether; Rita M. Gross; Maura O Neill; Michael Barnes; Missionsvetenskap; Missionary studies; Missionsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the contribution of feminist theology and feminist dialogue praxis to interfaith dialogue and theology of religions. Feminist dialogue praxis is studied through interviews and documentation from women’s interfaith projects; and feminist approaches to religious plurality through the works of a number of Christian feminist theologians, with special attention to Asian theologians, who in their theologizing consciously make use of their multireligious context. READ MORE

  7. 5. Clergy Existence Challenged : An Existential Psychological Exploration of Meaning-Making and Burnout Related to the Church of Sweden

    Author : Lennart Belfrage; Valerie DeMarinis; Owe Wikström; James W. Jones; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Psychology of religion; Religionspsykologi; Psychology of Religion; Religionspsykologi;

    Abstract : This study explores the prevalence of stress-related burnout among clergy in the Church of Sweden in the current postmodern context. The study focuses on the seriousness of the problem and the role of burnout’s existential dimension. READ MORE