Search for dissertations about: "religion"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 1509 swedish dissertations containing the word religion.
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1. Zvinorwadza : Being a patient in the religious and medical plurality of the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe
University dissertation from Uppsala : Acta Universitatis UpsaliensisAbstract : This thesis deals with patients in a rural area of southern Africa and poses these basic questions: What does it mean to be ill in this part of the world and what do patients' life-worlds look like? In order to find answers to these questions, an in-depth fieldwork was carried out through which I was able to study how patients reacted to illness. I followed twenty patients in their search of ease, of which ten were members of Chief Mataga's family, with whom I was staying. READ MORE
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2. Religion, rock och pluralism En religionssociologisk studie av kristen diskurs om rockmusik
University dissertation from Uppsala : Acta Universitatis UpsaliensisAbstract : Rock music has during all of its almost 50 years of existence been the subject of criticism and debate. Much of this criticism has risen from religious circles. But also in these circles, rock music has its advocates. This thesis studies the reactions to rock music by spokespersons for institutional Christianity. READ MORE
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3. Living Simultaneity On religion among semi-secular Swedes
University dissertation from Huddinge : Södertörns högskolaAbstract : This thesis aims at contributing to a critical discussion on the supposedly far-reaching secularity of Sweden on the one hand, and on the incongruence and inconsistency of lived religion on the other. At the center are people referred to as semi-secular Swedes – a group that is often neglected in the study of religion. READ MORE
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4. Från ritualiserad tradition till institutionaliserad religion : Strategier för maktlegitimering på Gotland under järnålder och medeltid
University dissertation from Uppsala : Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This dissertation has two principal aims. The first is to critically discuss the concept of an ancient Scandinavian religion. The second one is to create, from the terms ritualised tradition and (institutionalised) religion a theory of social change on Gotland during the Late Iron Age and the Middle Ages. READ MORE
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5. Religion in Nordic Politics as a Means to Societal Cohesion An Empirical Study on Party Platforms and Parliamentary Debates 1988–2012
University dissertation from Uppsala : Acta Universitatis UpsaliensisAbstract : In this study, I address the relationship between religion and politics in the Nordic countries, 1988–2012, against a background of increasing religious diversity alongside more or less continuous relationships between church and state. My aim is to analyse possible changes in the way religion is referred to by Nordic parliamentary parties, and in the way these parties use religion as a means to societal cohesion. READ MORE
