Search for dissertations about: "ritual agency"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words ritual agency.

  2. 1. Inside the Guru's Gate : Ritual Uses of Texts among the Sikhs in Varanasi

    Author : Kristina Myrvold; Tord Olsson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; anthropomorfism; personification; liturgies; ritual practices; religious worship; sacred places; gurdwara; migration; counter-narrative; emic historiography; speech act theory; ritual studies; oral tradition; performance studies; guru; holy scriptures; Adi Granth; Guru Granth; Benares; Varanasi; Punjab; Sikhism; Sikhs; Religious Studies and Theology; Religion och teologi; social agency; Övriga religioner; Humanities; Humaniora; rites of passage; festivals; rites of affliction; Other Religions; religious education; Religionsvetenskap;

    Abstract : Summary: For religious Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib is a holy scripture which enshrines ontologically divine words and the teaching and revelatory experiences of historical human Gurus. Simultaneously the Sikhs have taken the concept of a sacred scripture much further than any other religious community by treating the Guru Granth Sahib as a living Guru invested with spiritual authority and agency to guide humans and establish relationships to the divine. READ MORE

  4. 2. Homelands Lost and Gained : Slavic Migration and Settlement on Bornholm in the Early Middle Ages

    Author : Magdalena Naum; Historisk arkeologi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; migration; historical archaeology; Bornholm; Western Slavs; everyday; ritual practice; body; identity construction; memory; agency; phenomenology; practice theory;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis examines early medieval Slavic migration to the island of Bornholm (Denmark). With a combination of interdisciplinary theories and approaches, which focus on human translocation and memory and identity construction, a holistic approach to the studies of migration in archaeology is proposed. READ MORE

  5. 3. Multiple meanings of female initiation. "Circumcision" among Jola Women in Lower Casamance, Senegal

    Author : Liselott (Lisen) Dellenborg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Senegal; Lower Casamance; Kalounaye; Jola; initiation; female circumcision; genital cutting; identity; gender; moherhood; Islam; ethnicity; agency; social change;

    Abstract : This anthropological study examines the meanings and practices of female "circumcision" and initiation in relation to identity and social change in contemporary Muslim Jola society, Senegal, West Africa. During the 20th century, clitoridectomy spread - allegedly as part of Islam - and became essential for a Jola woman's identity as a "real" woman and mother, and an important aspect of the women's initiation ritual. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Performative Structure : Ritualizing the pyramid of Pepy I

    Author : Nils Billing; Eva Hellman; Harold Hays; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Pyramid Texts; monumentality; iconicity; performativity; Pepy I; reconstitution; manifestation; resurrection; ascension; ritual agency; mortuary temple; cult; pyramid; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Abstract : This study investigates the ancient Egyptian pyramid complex as a ritualized structure. In accordance with an indigenous cultural pattern, the category of an eternal architecture had been created at the beginning of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2700 B.C. READ MORE

  7. 5. Walking on the Pages of the Word of God : Self, Land, and Text Among Evangelical Volunteers in Jerusalem

    Author : ARON ENGBERG; Mika Vähäkangas; James S. Bielo; Simon Coleman; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Agency; Anthropology of Christianity; Christian ZIonism; Evangelicalism; Identity; Israel; Language Ideology; Literalism; Materiality; Mediation; Narrative; Sacred Space; Volunteering;

    Abstract : During the last thirty years, the Evangelical relationship with the State of Israel has drawn much academic and popular attention, particularly from historical, theological, and political perspectives. This dissertation engages with this literature but also complements it with an ethnographic account of the discursive practices of Evangelical Zionists through which, it is suggested, much of the religious significance of the contemporary state is being produced. READ MORE