Search for dissertations about: "religious healing"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words religious healing.

2. 1. The function of myth in Akan healing experience : a psychological inquiry into two traditional Akan healing communities

   Author : Desmond Ayim-Aboagye; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

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4. 2. Santería healing in Cuba

   Author : Johan Wedel; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Cuba; Santería; Afro-Cuba; religious healing; medical anthropology; medicine; rituals;

   Abstract : In Cuba, from the early twentieth century up until today, the Afro-Cuban religious tradition santería has stood for health, protection, and a meaningful life for many Cubans. Santería, which has its roots in Africa and the religious beliefs of the Yoruba slaves, is currently flourishing, with both Cubans and foreigners turning to it for help in instances of ill-health. READ MORE

5. 3. Jesus and the Forgiveness of Sins: An Aspect of His Prophetic Mission

   Author : Tobias Hägerland; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bible; New Testament; Gospels; historical Jesus; early Judaism; criteria; tradition; sin; forgiveness; christology; ecclesiology; priests; prophets; angels; blasphemy; healing; illness; faith; eschatology; restoration; Isaiah; Messiah; rhetoric; Progymnasmata; chreia; apomnemoneuma;

   Abstract : This study investigates the topic of forgiveness of sins in the mission of the historical Jesus. Gospel material that pertains to the question is authenticated by the use of criteria for historicity and interpreted within the wider context of first-century Judaism as part of a broader reconstruction of Jesus’ career as a healer and prophet. READ MORE

6. 4. Zvinorwadza : Being a patient in the religious and medical plurality of the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe

   Author : Olov Dahlin; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Patient; life-worlds; Mberengwa; Karanga; Zimbabwe; religious plurality; traditional religion; Christianity; African-initiated churches; medical plurality; traditional medicine; faith healing; modern health care; biomedicine; sickness; healing; placebo; nocebo; cooperation; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; religionssociologi; religionssociologi;

   Abstract : 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

7. 5. "We Are In-Between". : Health-seeking, Gender and Authority in a Charismatic Church in Mbeya, Tanzania

   Author : Lotta Gammelin; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; health-seeking; gender; health-seeking nomads; Faith-healing; Medical pluralism; authority; Pentecostal charismatic Christianity; spirit possession; agency; Spiritual warfare; suffering; motherhood; theological ethnography; Tanzania;

   Abstract : This study examines health-seeking, healing practices, gender and authority in a charismatic, locally founded church, the International Church for Healing and Glory (ICHG) in Mbeya, Tanzania. Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork carried out in 2013 and 2014, it addresses the situation of people who resort to faith-healing in a medically pluralistic context. READ MORE