Search for dissertations about: "emic"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the word emic.

2. 1. 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

4. 2. 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

5. 3. Cultural explanatory models of depression i Uganda

   Author : Elialilia Sarikiaeli Okello; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Depression; depression subtype; psychotic depression; culture; cultural competence; emic; etic; explanatory models; case vignette; qualitative research; help seeking; pathway to care; indigenous model; traditional healer; health policy.;

   Abstract : Background: Depressive disorders are among the most frequent psychiatric disorders, accounting for up to 30% of primary care service utilisation in developing countries in general, and Uganda in particular. However, delays in seeking treatment, misdiagnosis and non-specific treatments have compromised appropriate care for people with depression. READ MORE

6. 4. Make difference : Deafness and video technology at work

   Author : Rebekah Cupitt; Ann Lantz; Per-Anders Forstorp; Minna Räsänen; Karen Nakamura; KTH; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; deaf culture; technology; intra-actions; video meetings; materiality visuality; alterity; dövkultur; videomötesteknik; intra-aktioner; videomöten; materialitet; olikhet; Människa-datorinteraktion; Human-computer Interaction;

   Abstract : Video meetings are a regular part of work at Swedish television’s editorial for programming in Swedish Sign Language (SVT Teckenspråk). In the process of creating television programming in Swedish Sign Language, SVT employees communicate with and through technologies. READ MORE

7. 5. Group Planning among L2 Learners of Italian: A Conversation Analytic Perspective

   Author : Silvia Kunitz; Numa Markee; Andrea Golato; Makoto Hayashi; Diane Musumeci; USA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; conversation analysis; planning; second language studies; group work; language alternation; språkdidaktik; Language Education;

   Abstract : In line with the call for a process-oriented and ecologically sound approach to planning in SLA (Ellis, 2005), and with the behavioral approach adopted in other fields (Murphy, 2004, 2005; Suchman, 1987, 2007), the present work applies Conversation Analysis to the study of group planning. The participants are four groups of adult learners of Italian as a foreign language, engaged in the preparation of a classroom presentation in their L2. READ MORE