Search for dissertations about: "western"

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2. 1. Western esoterism : Ultimate Sacred Postulates and Ritual Fields

   Author : Lars Steen Larsen; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gnosis; mysticism; religions experience; Eckhart Tolle; New Age; James Redfield; Theosophy; Agrippa; anthropology; Paracelsus; Western esotericism; USP.; Hermetica; ritual fields; Western esoterism;

   Abstract : The greater part of Western Esoterism holds beliefs in five important matrices. This branch of esoterism, rooted in a Hermetic milieu, is labelled dialectical esoterism because of the dialectical relationship between the ‘lower’ (man, earth) and the ‘higher’ (heaven, the divine, God). READ MORE

4. 2. The Development of Parliamentarism in Western Europe

   Author : Simon Davidsson; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; parlamentarism; partisystem; västeuropa; institutionell förändring; parliamentarism; party systems; Western Europe; institutional change;

   Abstract : This dissertation describes and explains the development of parliamentarism in Western Europe. Defining parliamentarism as an institutional solution in which the government is politically responsible to parliament only, I use country historiography to map out a tug-of-war between parliament and the head of state over the ability to make governments resign or maintain them in office in 11 West European countries since the establishment of national parliaments. READ MORE

5. 3. Transformative Power Challenged : EU Membership Conditionality in the Western Balkans Revisited

   Author : Jessica Giandomenico; Bennich-Björkman Li; Jarstad Anna; David Phinnemore; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; European Union; Western Balkans; EU enlargement; historical institutionalism; power; elections; norm transfer; compliance; Statskunskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : The EU is assumed to have a strong top-down transformative power over the states applying for membership. But despite intensive research on the EU membership conditionality, the transformative power of the EU in itself has been left curiously understudied. READ MORE

6. 4. "At Least There is Something!" : Strategic decision-making by female farmers in Western Kenya

   Author : Helen Nyberg; Mats Widgren; Peter Kinlund; Anders Närman; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Western Kenya; Luo; Luhya; female farmers; gender system; gender contract; intensification of agriculture; diversification of agriculture; diversification of economic sources; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : In rural sub-Saharan Africa women are often described as the most important farmers, producing the bulk of subsistence food. In this study it is shown that female farmers in the four visited villages of Western Kenya are much more than farmers. READ MORE

7. 5. From Darkness to Light. Western Esoteric Rituals of Initiation

   Author : Henrik Bogdan; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Western esotericism; rituals of initiation; ritual studies; Freemasonry; Wicca; Occultism;

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