Search for dissertations about: "narrative canon"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words narrative canon.

  2. 1. The Scriptures and the LORD : Formation and Significance of the Christian Biblical Canon. A Study in Text, Ritual and Interpretation

    Author : Tomas Bokedal; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion och teologi; Religious Studies and Theology; Kristendom; Christianity; history of doctrines; Irenaeus; Marcion; tradition; historical criticism; Hans-Georg Gadamer; 20th century theology; early church; Apostles Creed; revelation; christology; Word of God; inspiration; authority; narrative; interpretation; New Testament; Rule of Faith; ritual; liturgy; worship; oral tradition; codex format; nomina sacra; canonical criticism; textuality; text; semiotics; reception; Wirkungsgeschichte; hermeneutics; methodology; canon; Bible; theology; Paleography; bibliology; epigraphy; papyrology; Paleografi; epigrafik; papyrologi; General; systematic and practical Christian theology; Kristen teologi allmän; systematisk och praktisk ; Bibelvetenskap; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia;

    Abstract : This study explores the emergence of the Christian biblical canon and its significance for the early as well as for the contemporary church. Some major challenges to previous research on the biblical canon are presented. READ MORE

  4. 2. Wrestling with Textual Violence : A Case Study of the Jephthah Narrative in Antiquity and Modernity with Special Regard to Gender

    Author : Mikael Sjöberg; Lars Hartman; Hanna Stenström; David Miller Gunn; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Humanities and religion; feminism; feminist exegesis; feminist biblical interpretation; gender; classic; canon; ethics of interpretation; narratology; Jephthah; Judges; Pseudo-Philo; Josephus; Handel; Grant Watson; Amos Oz; HUMANIORA OCH RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; gamla testamentets exegetik; Old Testament Exegesis;

    Abstract : How may readers handle the encounter with violence in a “classical text”? The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the debate on the ethics of biblical interpretation with special regard to feminism. To fulfil that aim, a case study of the narrative of Jephthah is made and its implications are discussed at a more general level. READ MORE

  5. 3. Writing History in a Propaganda Institute : Political Power and Network Dynamics in Communist Romania

    Author : Francesco Zavatti; Per Bolin; Heiko Droste; Kim Salomon; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historiography; history-writing; Romania; history and power; sovereignty; communism; national-communism; resources; narrative canon; networking; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : In 1990, the Institute for Historical and Socio-Political Studies of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party was closed, since the Party was dissolved by the Romanian Revolution. Similar institutions had existed in all countries belonging to the Soviet bloc. READ MORE

  6. 4. In Search of the Pure Photograph : A Historiographic Study of the Farm Security Administration, Walker Evans, and the Survey Histories of Photography

    Author : Cecilia Strandroth; Marta Edling; Jan von Bonsdorff; Karin Becker; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; photography; historiography; documentary; history of photography; Farm Security Administration; Walker Evans; propaganda; modernism; media specificity; photographic archives; Konstvetenskap; History Of Art; konstvetenskap; Art;

    Abstract : The photographic archive of the American New Deal agency Farm Security Administration (created 1935-1943) occupies an important place in the history of photography as an exemplar of documentary photography and as symbol of the Great Depression. This dissertation is a historiographic study of this narrative of FSA photography, which investigates the archive's monumental position in the historical narration and demonstrates other possible readings. READ MORE

  7. 5. Slippery paths : The performance and canonization of Turkic literature and Uyghur muqam song in Islam and modernity

    Author : Nathan Light; USA IN Indiana University; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Folklore; Song; Islam; Muqam; Modernity; Language; literature and linguistics; Social sciences; Turkic; Canonization; Middle Eastern literature; Uyghur; Performance; China; Asian literature; Turkic languages; Turkiska språk; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Abstract : In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians have edited into an invented "great tradition" which supports a Uyghur claim to an important piece world cultural history. READ MORE