Search for dissertations about: "orthodox"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the word orthodox.

2. 1. According to whose will : The entanglements of gender & religion in the lives of transgender Jews with an Orthodox background

   Author : Oriol Poveda Guillén; Mia Lövheim; Lena Roos; Peter Nynäs; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agential realism; entanglement; feminism; FTM; gender; intra-action; Jewish; Judaism; LGBTQ; MTF; non-binary; Orthodox; posthumanism; queer; religion; religiosity; religious change; religious practice; social constructionism; transgender; Sociology of Religion; Religionssociologi;

   Abstract : This study, the first in its scope on transgender religiosity, is based on in-depth biographical interviews with 13 transgender participants with a Jewish Orthodox background (currently and formerly Orthodox). The primary aim of the study has been to elucidate the entanglements of gender and religion in three periods of the participants’ lives: pre-transition, transition and post-transition. READ MORE

4. 2. The Dark Night : St John of the Cross and Eastern Orthodox Theology

   Author : Johannes Pulkkanen; Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm; Anders Ekenberg; Andrew Louth; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Orthodox theology; Catholic theology; mystical theology; St John of the Cross; the dark night of the soul; Plotinus; neo-Platonism; spiritual exercises; St Symeon the New Theologian; compunction; spiritual father; Vladimir Lossky; filioque; Trinitarian theology; energeiai; St Maximus Confessor; deification; union with God.; Systematic theology; Systematisk teologi;

   Abstract : Russian émigré theologian Vladimir Lossky's (1903-1958) claims in his classic study of 1944, The Mystical Theology of Eastern Church, that the emphasis on the experience of spiritual separation from God in Western mystical theology ultimately goes back to how Latin churches began to add the word filioque (and-of-the-Son) to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in the sixth century. In his explanation Lossky discusses the theology of the Greek fathers suggesting that the idea of the Spirit’s generation from both the Father and the Son both builds upon and generates philosophical ideas that conflict with the possibility of receiving personal experiential knowledge of God. READ MORE

5. 3. Entering the Holy Place in Syriac Orthodox Liturgy : A Ritual and Theological Analysis

   Author : Gabriel Bar-Sawme; Ninna Edgardh Beckman; Kathleen McVey; Michael Hjälm; Bryan Spinks; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Syriac Orthodox liturgy; rite of entrance; ritual theory; Ronald Grimes; Victor Turner; liturgical studies; liturgics; liturgical history.; Kyrkovetenskap; Ecclesiology;

   Abstract : Questions concerning sacred spaces and their relationship to ritual is of interest to historians of religion and others as well. How sacred spaces emerge and are constructed and what relationship they have to rituals are some of the areas that are dealt with in this study in relation to Syriac Orthodox liturgy. READ MORE

6. 4. Virginity Recast : Romanos and the Mother of God

   Author : Thomas Arentzen; Samuel Rubenson; Ingela Nilsson; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Saint 6th cent; Romanus Melodus; Hymns; Greek Byzantine ; Virgin Mary – History of doctrines – 030–600; Virgin Mary – Annunciation; Virgin Mary – veneration; Bible – use in hymns; Akathists; Hymns – Theology; Theotokos; Nativity; Byzantine rite – Liturgy; Kontakion; Mariology; Orthodox Eastern Church – Liturgy; Orthodox Eastern Church – Hymns; Body; Human – religious aspects – Christianity; Late Antiquity; asceticism; breast feeding; gender and sexuality issues; Justinian Era.; Romanos the Melodist; Virgin Mary; kontakion; Constantinople; hymns; Mariology; virginity;

   Abstract : The Virgin Mary has always stood out in the Christian scenery, yet in ever-changing guises. This study explores the characterization of the Virgin in the poetic works of Romanos the Melodist (ca. 490–560), the great composer of the so-called kontakion. Written for liturgical use, these dramatic songs soon became well-known and immensely popular. READ MORE

7. 5. 'Pancosmic' Church - Specific Romanesc: Ecclesiological Themes in the Writings of Nichifor Crainic between 1922 and 1944

   Author : Christine Mary Hall; Sven-Erik Brodd; Kaisamari Hintikka; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Crainic; ‘pancosmic’ Church; Church-State relations; demophilia; ethnocracy; specificul românesc; Gândirea; Romanian Orthodox Church; cosmic ecclesiology; Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite; hesychasm; theosis; hierarchy; nationalism; Church studies; Kyrkovetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis is concerned with the Romanian Orthodox poet, director of the journal G�ndirea, and theologian, Nichifor Crainic (1889-1972), and with the two over-arching ecclesiological themes in his writings between 1922 and 1944 ? the pancosmic Church and specificul rom�nesc (the particularity of Romanian identity). Though these are fundamentally related to each other, there are many tensions between them, as the relationship between local and particular identity and pancosmic universality is worked out against the complex political backdrop of 20-th century Romania. READ MORE