Search for dissertations about: "spirituality"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the word spirituality.

  2. 6. Piety and Politics : Nurcholish Madjid and His Interpretation of Islam in Modern Indonesia

    Author : Ann Kull; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nurcholish Madjid; Indonesia; takwa; Islam; context; ijtihad; Paramadina; tolerance; pluralism; gender; Sufism; spirituality; democracy; human rights; Pancasila; Ibn Taymiyya; education; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : This dissertation in the field of Islamic studies offers a critical analysis of Nurcholish Madjid's attempt to interpret Islam within the framework of modern Indonesia. Nurcholish, who recently passed away at the age of sixty-six, had been active in the reform of Islamic thought for over thirty years, and while remaining deeply coloured by the local Indonesian context, was also part of a global and century-old tradition of reform. READ MORE

  4. 7. Spectral Jade : Materiality, Conceptualisation, and Value in the Myanmar-China Jadeite Trade

    Author : Henrik Möller; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; jade; china; Yunnan; Ruili; Myanmar; Kachin; borderland; Ethnicity; trade; Craft; markets; guanxi; masculinity; Materiality; ontology; Conceptual; nonhuman; Holism; analogism; Taoism; Nationalism; authenticity; Spirituality; Value; morality; ethnography; narratives;

    Abstract : Hosting a cultural history of 8.000 years in China, jade has seen a revival in China’s current era. Jadeite is the most expensive type of jade, and the vast majority of jadeite is mined in Myanmar’s Kachin State and sold in China.Spectral Jade is a study of trade, carving, and use of jadeite. READ MORE

  5. 8. Arts and Crafts Divine : Teaching and Learning Ritual Magic in Sodalitas Rosae Crucis

    Author : Olivia Cejvan; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; religionsantropologi; Ritual Studies; Levd religion; magi; Esoterism; Contemporary esotericism; anthropology of religion; ritual magic; Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; Social Learning Theory; contemporary esotericism; initiation; narrative; spirituality; lived religion; ritual studies;

    Abstract : This is an anthropological study of teaching and learning as it unfolds in a contemporary esoteric society in Sweden, the Sodalitas Rosae Crucis (SRC), founded in 2002. It perpetuates the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an influential esoteric society instituted in Victorian London. READ MORE

  6. 9. Religious Education in Contemporary Pluralistic Sweden

    Author : Karin Kittelmann Flensner; Kerstin von Brömssen; Signild Risenfors; Judith Everington; Högskolan Väst; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religious Education; secularism; spirituality; nationalism; Swedishness; education; ethnography; classroom observation; discourse analysis; Utbildningsvetenskap; Educational science;

    Abstract : In the mandatory, integrative and non-confessional school subject of Religious Education in Sweden, all students are taught together regardless of religious or secular affiliation. The overall aim of this thesis is to explore and analyse how Religious Education (RE) can be socially constructed in the upper secondary school classroom practice in the pluralistic context of contemporary Sweden. READ MORE

  7. 10. Spirit of Christ Inculturated- A Theological Theme Implicit in Shusaku Endo's Literary Works

    Author : Emi Masé-Hasegawa; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kristen teologi allmän; systematic and practical Christian theology; General; Christ.; religious pluralism; multiple religious affiliation; spirituality; koshinto; literature; Japanese religions; Japanese literature; Japan; Christianity; Japanese Christianity; Endo; inculturation; systematisk och praktisk ; Paleo-Siberian languages and literatures; Korean; Japanese; Koreanska; japanska och paleosibiriska språk; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) is a Roman Catholic, Japanese novelist. From 1950 to 1953, he studied French literature in Lyon, France. Returning from Lyon, Endo began his career as a novelist. His early works include: White Men, Yellow Men(1954), A Wonderful Fool(1959), The Women in the Bible(1960), Foreign Studies(1965), etc. READ MORE