Sökning: "Astrology"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Astrology.

  1. 1. Patterns of Destiny : Hindu Nāḍī Astrology

    Författare :Martin Gansten; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Candrakalanadi; Devakerala; Gurunadi; Dhruvanadi; Amsanadi; karman; karma; predestination; free will; fate; purusakara; daiva; divination; astrology; jyotihsastra; jyotisa; Nadi; Hindu astrology; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Sammanfattning : Like all divination, Hindu astrology (jyotisa) is concerned with central religious issues such as man’s relation to the world, moral responsibility, and the revelation of a coherent divine order underlying human experience. Comprising a descriptive as well as a prescriptive aspect, jyotisa allows for both prediction and the exercise of free will. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Looking at the Future : Divination and Astrology in Ancient Egypt

    Författare :Andreas Winkler; Lana Troy; Kasia Szpakowska; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ancient Egypt; Graeco-Roman Egypt; Demotic; Coptic; divination; astrology; dream interpretation; calendar; pun; allegory; sages.; Egyptology; Egyptologi; Egyptology; Egyptologi;

    Sammanfattning : This study discusses divination in ancient Egypt, from the New Kingdom onwards in order to highlight the Egyptian elements in later astrological practices in Graeco-Roman Egypt. The first chapter treats divination and its study in general terms. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Taming the Prophets : Astrology, Orthodoxy and the Word of God in Early Modern Sweden

    Författare :Martin Kjellgren; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Apocalypticism; Astrology; Confessionalization; Heterodoxy; Knowledge; Lutheranism; Magic; Orthodoxy; Politics; Power; Prophecy; Reformation; Religion; Science; Social Discipline; Apocalypticism;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to analyse a displacement of the limits between allowable and illicit knowledge in the orthodox, Lutheran discourse of early modern Sweden. Focusing on the debate over astrology, exemplified in the works of Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (1565-1646) and Sigfridus Aronus Forsius (d. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Western esoterism : Ultimate Sacred Postulates and Ritual Fields

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

    Sammanfattning : 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). LÄS MER

  7. 5. Att förklara det oförklarliga : En livsåskådningsstudie om människors tolkningar av paranormala fenomen i en vetenskaplig tidsålder

    Författare :Sven-Eric Morhed; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; paranormal; unexplainable; view of life; world view; life philosophy; ideology; sociology of science; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; Studies In Faiths and Ideologies;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present thesis is to investigate the importance that paranormal phenomena has for the view of life of contemporary Swedes. It is my impression that science and scientific theories generally influence the person who tries to understand specific phenomena in the world. LÄS MER