Search for dissertations about: "world religion"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 164 swedish dissertations containing the words world religion.
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1. Phenomenology and the making of the world
Abstract : trictions provided by language and knowledge. It is also shown how this creates difficulties as to the claim within religion to express what is beyond the known and not directlyavailable by means of ordinary language. The author focuses on ideas within the phenomenology of religion of how to cope withthis tension. READ MORE
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2. Lived Pentecostalism in India : Middle Class Women and Their Everyday Religion
Abstract : In recent decades, the Pentecostal movement in India has not only grown significantly, it has also become increasingly diverse. While the majority of the movement’s adherents still belong to marginalized groups in Indian society, middle-class Pentecostals are growing in number and changing the dynamics and identity of the movement. READ MORE
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3. The Signified World : The Problem of Occasionality in Husserl's Phenomenology of Meaning
Abstract : This study offers the first comprehensive account of the problem of situation-dependence and facticity in Husserl's phenomenology of meaning. On the basis of a reconsideration of the central ideas of Husserl's phenomenological approach to meaning and intentionality, it presents a reconstruction and assessment of Husserl's revised conception of empirical meaning. READ MORE
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4. God and the world : Pragmatic and epistemic arguments for panentheistic and pantheistic conceptions of the God–world relationship
Abstract : This study critically reconstructs, analyzes, and assesses reasons for embracing panentheism or pantheism instead of classical theism. It argues that, when analyzing the adequacy of a conception of God, pragmatic reasons related to harms or benefits are equally important as epistemic reasons that relate to truth and correspondence. READ MORE
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5. Zvinorwadza : being a patient in the religious and medical plurality of the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe
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