Search for dissertations about: "hermeneutics"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 120 swedish dissertations containing the word hermeneutics.

  2. 31. Training teachers through technology : A case study of a distance-based teacher training programme

    Author : J. Ola Lindberg; Anders D. Olofsson; Jarl Backman; Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Edukation; hermeneutics; teacher training; distance education; ICT; learning community; case study.; Education; Pedagogik;

    Abstract : This thesis’ main theme is the relationship between teacher training, distance education, ICT and community. These aspects of an educational practice are conceptualised within a hermeneutical approach as aspects of edukation. The thesis consists of eight articles. READ MORE

  4. 32. Language as a Leading Light to Business Cultural Insight : A Study on Expatriates' Intercultural Communication in Central and Eastern Europe

    Author : Kjell Ljungbo; Björn Bjerke; Susanne Tietze; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Language; multilingualism; culture; intercultural communication; business; expatriate; Central and Eastern Europe; cultural significance structure; business flower; hermeneutics; ideal type; export; foreign language skills; language competence; Sweden; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract : Language competence is decisively important in international business and could increase efficacy, efficiency, sales and profits. Language is an underresearched area in business studies though language constitutes management and the managers building structures, processes, cultures and personalities being the most vital working tool to get things done and make them understandable. READ MORE

  5. 33. Courage of Faith : Dag Hammarskjölds Way in Quest of Negotiated Peace, Reconciliation and Meaning

    Author : Paul R. Nelson; Bo Larsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Faiths and ideologies; Profile; Way; White Book; existential-ontological dimension; faith and ethical mysticism; reverence for life; mystery of Jesus Christ; faithful realism; creative evolution; hermeneutics; negotiated peace; religious language and spiritual experience; diplomacy of reconciliation; human dignity imperative; UN Charter; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

    Abstract : Dag Hammarskjöld categorically affirmed in his undated letter which accompanied his manuscript that the entries in Vägmärken (Markings) “provide the only true ‘profile’ that can be drawn” of his personal spiritual form of life. My research focuses on Dag Hammarskjöld’s negotiations with himself and with God; his ultimate concern for self-knowledge and authentic existence, world-view, interpretation of reality, ethical praxis for human rights and a diplomacy of reconciliation. READ MORE

  6. 34. Vindicating Vengeance and Violence? : Exegetical Approaches to Imprecatory Psalms and their Relevance for Liturgy

    Author : Elisabet Nord; Bibelvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Förbannelsepsalmer; Psaltaren; Liturgi; tolkningsstrategier; Hermeneutik; exegetik; generisk tolkningsstrategi; tidegärden; kommentarlitteratur; reception; imprecatory psalms; cursing psalms; vengeance; violence; generic interpretative strategy; generic hermeneutical approach; liturgy; Liturgy of the Hours; prayer; hermeneutics; commentary; exegesis; ethics; philosophy; performativity; logic of self-involvement ; Ps 58; Ps 109; Ps 137; Ps 139; prayer books;

    Abstract : Due to their calls for vengeance and violence the so called imprecatory psalms are generally considered ethically difficult and subsequently omitted from liturgy. This becomes particularly evident in breviaries, such as the Roman Catholic Church’s Liturgy of the Hours, where both entire psalms and individual verses have been omitted. READ MORE

  7. 35. Cognition and Cultural Context : An Inquiry into Gadamer's Theory of Context-Dependence

    Author : Anders Odenstedt; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Context-dependence; presupposition; tradition; historicism; hermeneutics; Gadamer; Dilthey; Heidegger; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

    Abstract : This study deals with the problem of the context-dependence of thought, as dealt with by the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002). Gadamer stresses what he sees as the difficulty of bringing to awareness and criticising influences which preserve such dependence, and the role of traditions (Überlieferungen) in this regard. READ MORE