Sökning: "Conversion Narratives"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden Conversion Narratives.
1. Christianity, Generation and Narrative : Religious Conversion and Change in Sidama, Ethiopia, 1974–2012
Sammanfattning : This study presents narratives concerning religious conversion and change in Evangelical-Pentecostal Christian communities in the Sidama zone, Southern Ethiopia. The study is based on narrative data collected through field research, which mainly focuses on the period 1974–2012. LÄS MER
2. "Vi blev muslimer" Svenska kvinnor berättar : En religionssociologisk studie av konversionsberättelser
Sammanfattning : Materialet i studien består av kvalitativa intervjuer med svenska kvinnor som konverterat till islam. I intervjuerna har frågor ställts om hur de uppfattar sitt religiösa engagemang och sitt liv som muslimer i ett västerländskt samhälle. LÄS MER
3. Olav den helige i medeltida bildkonst : Legendmotiv och attribut
Sammanfattning : This iconographical study includes all pictorial narratives from the legend of the Martyr King Saint Olav and a variety of samples of his symbolic attributes in representational images. Olav II Haraldsson was king of Norway 1015-1030. LÄS MER
4. Creating the Revolutionary Heroines : The Case of Female Terrorists of the PSR (Russia, Beginning of the 20th Century)
Sammanfattning : Representing revolutionary terrorists as heroes and martyrs was a typical feature of the mythology of the Russian revolutionary underground at the beginning of the 20th century. This mythology described Underground Russia, the world of the revolutionaries, as an ideal country inhabited by ideal people. LÄS MER
5. Slippery paths : The performance and canonization of Turkic literature and Uyghur muqam song in Islam and modernity
Sammanfattning : In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians have edited into an invented "great tradition" which supports a Uyghur claim to an important piece world cultural history. LÄS MER