Search for dissertations about: "theology of religions"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 41 swedish dissertations containing the words theology of religions.

  2. 16. Zvinorwadza : being a patient in the religious and medical plurality of the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe

    Author : Olov Dahlin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Patients - Zimbabwe; Medical plurality - Zimbabwe; Religious plurality - Zimbabwe; Patienter – Zimbabwe; Sjukdomsbegreppet – Zimbabwe; Mångkulturella samhällen – Zimbabwe; Mångreligiösa samhällen - Zimbabwe; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    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

  4. 17. UAMSHO: A Theological Study of the Proclamation of the Revival Movement within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania

    Author : Anneth Nyagawa Munga; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; making; grace; authority; ability; charismata; morality; church discipline; the church; the Bible; holiness; salvation; over-pessimism; over-optimism; realization of sin; relapsing; demons; sin; crisis; the world; Satan; God; the Holy Spirit; Jesus Christ; General; systematic and practical Christian theology; Kristen teologi allmän; systematisk och praktisk ;

    Abstract : This thesis presents a theological study of the revival (Uamsho) movement within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT). This movement is part of the East African Revival Movement that began during the late 1920's within the Protestant churches in Rwanda, after which it spread to Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. READ MORE

  5. 18. Mobile Performances : A Philosophical Account of Linguistic Undecidability as Possibility and Problem in the Theology of Religion

    Author : Patrik Fridlund; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; O?Leary; Netland; Knitter; Derrida; Theology of religion; Religious diversity; Philosophy of language; Linguistic Mobility Stability; Evaluation of religions; Interreligious relations; Ric?ur; Religious Studies and Theology; Religion och teologi;

    Abstract : How to judge religions other than one's own when the means are lacking due to linguistic mobility? In the present thesis this question is mainly analysed in a Christian setting through a reading of the theologians Paul Knitter and Harold Netland. It is, however, claimed that the same question could be asked in other religious settings, also with regard to one's own tradition, and could be treated as a general question?how to judge, evaluate, and criticise religion if the means to do that are lacking? The thesis starts by maintaining that the question of linguistic mobility/stability is an issue in theology. READ MORE

  6. 19. The Vulnerable Power of Worship A Study of a Power Approach to Contextualization in Christian Mission

    Author : Mats Rydinger; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religious Studies and Theology; Ritual Strategies; Religious Field; Power negotiation; Mission; Contextualization; Missio Dei; Religion och teologi;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with the process of contextualizing the Christian discourse with a specific focus on worship and power negotiation. The study is based on literature, interviews and approximately six months of fieldwork in the U.S. in the years 1996,1998, and 2004. READ MORE

  7. 20. Evocatio deorum : Historical and mythical interpretations of ritualised conquests in the expansion of ancient Rome

    Author : Gabriella Gustafsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Roman religion; evocatio; devotio; Livy; Macrobius; Servius; Veii; myth; historiography; theology of history; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

    Abstract : The dissertation examines the historical evidence, and the historiographical and mythical aspects of the sources, of the evocatio-ritual of Republican Rome. According to some ancient sources, the tutelary deity of an enemy city was, just before a conquest, "called out", that is, asked to abandon the city and promised a new temple in Rome. READ MORE