Search for dissertations about: "religion"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 992 swedish dissertations containing the word religion.

  2. 11. Religion in Indian schools : Exploring national systems of religious education through 'mirroring'

    Author : Kristian Niemi; Geir Skeie; von Brömssen Kerstin; Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; subject-specific education; religion; religious education; comparative education; Sweden; India; mirroring; Subject Learning and Teaching; ämnesdidaktik;

    Abstract : India is a secular state. For this reason, it has been claimed that there is no room for religion in its schools — in other words, no religious education [RE] — despite India being an extremely multicultural society. This compilation thesis begins by examining the aforementioned claim. READ MORE

  4. 12. Beyond an instrumental approach to religion and development : Challenges for church-based healthcare in Tanzania

    Author : Josephine Sundqvist; Per Pettersson; Lennart Wohlgemuth; Anders Sjöborg; Ignatius Swart; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; development; church organisations; public private partnerships; healthcare; Sociology of Religion; Religionssociologi;

    Abstract : This dissertation serves as a contribution to the larger ongoing debate on the role of religion in development in an effort to move beyond an instrumental approach. The aim is to study the role of religious agents in development through the prism of contractual partnerships between church organisations and the Tanzanian state in healthcare delivery. READ MORE

  5. 13. Living Simultaneity: On religion among semi-secular Swedes

    Author : Ann af Burén; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; simultaneity; semi-secular; liminal; secularity; religious incongruence; fuzzy fidelity; the subjective turn; lived religion; the inadequacy approach; religious and secular; Stockholm; Sweden;

    Abstract : 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

  6. 14. I’m a Believer – But I’ll Be Damned if I’m Religious : Belief and Religion in the Greater Copenhagen Area : A Focus Group Study

    Author : Ina Rosen; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; focus groups; theory; privatization; society.; Copenhagen; Denmark; methodology; sociology; anthropology; belief; religion;

    Abstract : This book is a contribution to the discussion about religion in contemporary Western society, characterized by the privatization of religion. The concept religion is not easily operational and does not carry meaning or implications that remain valid or consistent over time. It must be re-substantiated in order to remain descriptive and operational. READ MORE

  7. 15. American Dervish: Making Mevlevism in the United States of America

    Author : Simon Sorgenfrei; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sufism; Mevlevi Sufism; Esotericism; Performance; Ritual; Islam; Women and Religion; Rumi; Mevlevi Order of America; Sufism;

    Abstract : In the late 1970s, the Turkish Mevlevi Sufi sheikh Süleyman Dede arrived from Konya, Turkey, in the United States. There he initiated a number of individuals primarily belonging to American esoteric groups as sheikhs in the Mevlevi order, known in Euro-America as the whirling dervishes. READ MORE