Search for dissertations about: "religious and secular"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 36 swedish dissertations containing the words religious and secular.

2. 21. The Taizhou Movement : Being Mindful in Sixteenth Century China

   Author : Johanna Lidén; Olof Sundqvist; Roger Greatrex; Joachim Gentz; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Taizhou movement; Confucianism; Neo-Confucianism; Wang Gen; religious ideas; religious praxis; self-respect; self-protection; calming the mind; Wang Yangming; Buddhism; Yan Jun; Daoism; He Xinyin; Luo Rufang; religious persecution; History of Religion; religionshistoria;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to define and analyze the religious ideas, praxis and organizations of the Taizhou movement using the earliest sources from the Ming dynasty. The Taizhou movement originated with a salt merchant named Wang Gen (1483–1541), who became a disciple of the well-known Neo-Confucian philosopher Wang Yangming (1472–1529). READ MORE

4. 22. “Everybody Welcome to France” : Secularism, Governmentality & Fantasy in the French Republic 2003-2011

   Author : Per-Erik Nilsson; Mattias Gardell; Joan W. Scott; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; France; republic; nation; integration; assimilation; nationalism; secularism; secularist; secularization; laïcité; Islam; other; veil; identity; tolerance; freedom of conscience; gender equality; citizenship; critical religion; discourse; discourse analysis; illiberalism; republicanism; Religionshistoria; History of Religions; Statskunskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : What does it mean to be “secular”? How are “secular” identities constructed and negotiated? How can one understand that “secularism” has become an important marker of identity for nationalistic forces in Europe?In the dissertation “Everybody, Welcome to France” the author sets out to inquire into the topic of secularism and national identity in contemporary France. The specific research question is how France has been articulated as a “secular” republic in political speech and legislative text in 2003-2011 and how this articulation relates to conceptions of “nation”, “integration”, and “citizenship”. READ MORE

5. 23. Refugees or Returnees : European Jews, Palestinian Arabs and the Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem around 1948

   Author : Ulf Carmesund; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Oddbjörn Birger Leirvik; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Lutheran; Jerusalem; Jew; Arab; Muslim; Christian; Israel; Israeli; Apocalyptic; Superstition; Fundamentalism; Republican and Romantic nationalism; Bible; history; Poetic and power.; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; Missionsvetenskap; Studies of Missions;

   Abstract : In this study five individuals who worked in Svenska Israelsmissionen and at the Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem are focused. These are Greta Andrén, deaconess in Svenska Israelsmissionen from 1934 and matron at the Swedish Theological Institute from 1946 to 1971, Birger Pernow, director of Svenska Israelsmissionen from 1930 to 1961, Harald Sahlin director of the Swedish Theological Institute in 1947, Hans Kosmala director of the Swedish Theological Institute from 1951 to 1971, and finally H. READ MORE

6. 24. Rural Women in Bangladesh : The Legal Status of Women and the Relationship between NGOs and Religious Groups

   Author : Abdel Baten Miaji; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NGOs; Islamology; Women in Bangladesh; nongovernment institutions; Gender; Rural Bangladesh; Qur an; Legal status of women; Islamists; Bangladeshi girls; Bangladesh; Village women; Islam; Women; Hadith; History of Religion;

   Abstract : Bangladesh is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. In spite of political turmoil, frequent natural disasters and widespread corruption it has, in less than four decades after its birth as an independent state, gained visible success in human development - especially the education of women and girls, family planning and health, and microcredit to the poor. READ MORE

7. 25. Max Weber in a Theological Perspective

   Author : Thomas Ekstrand; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Max Weber; value relevance; view of life; theology; utopian realism; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

   Abstract : The dissertation deals with the problem of how Christian theology can be integrated with secular thinking. It is claimed that since modern science applies many different perspectives, this integrative effort can only take place as a never-ending dialogue between different interpretations of both theology and science. READ MORE