Sökning: "Sacred Space"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden Sacred Space.

1. 6. Inside the Guru's Gate : Ritual Uses of Texts among the Sikhs in Varanasi

   Författare :Kristina Myrvold; Tord Olsson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; anthropomorfism; personification; liturgies; ritual practices; religious worship; sacred places; gurdwara; migration; counter-narrative; emic historiography; speech act theory; ritual studies; oral tradition; performance studies; guru; holy scriptures; Adi Granth; Guru Granth; Benares; Varanasi; Punjab; Sikhism; Sikhs; Religious Studies and Theology; Religion och teologi; social agency; Övriga religioner; Humanities; Humaniora; rites of passage; festivals; rites of affliction; Other Religions; religious education; Religionsvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : Summary: For religious Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib is a holy scripture which enshrines ontologically divine words and the teaching and revelatory experiences of historical human Gurus. Simultaneously the Sikhs have taken the concept of a sacred scripture much further than any other religious community by treating the Guru Granth Sahib as a living Guru invested with spiritual authority and agency to guide humans and establish relationships to the divine. LÄS MER

3. 7. Kurbits-ReBoot : svensk folksång i ny scenisk gestaltning

   Författare :Susanne Rosenberg; Heikki Laitinen; Hannu Saha; Johan Sundberg; Henrik Frisk; Kungl. Musikhögskolan; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Folk song; stage presence; vocal performance studies; performance; variation; improvisation; flow; interpretation; artistic research; folk hymns; ballads; folk vocal styles; herding calls; kulning; folksång; scenisk gestaltning; musikupplevelse; performans; variation; improvisation; flow; interpret; interpretation; konstnärlig forskning; folkliga koraler; ballader; sångsätt; kulning;

   Sammanfattning : This artistic research project is an explorative study in new forms of expression of Swedish folk singing in a scenic context, exploring expressive qualities in traditional Swedish folk song from the point of view of the folk singer as a creative performer. The fundamental research question is how, in a scenic context, can space be given to what is a characteristic quality of traditional folk song, namely creative interpretation in the moment, through variation and improvisation using the song as a concept rather than a fixed work. LÄS MER

4. 8. Entering the Holy Place in Syriac Orthodox Liturgy : A Ritual and Theological Analysis

   Författare :Gabriel Bar-Sawme; Ninna Edgardh Beckman; Kathleen McVey; Michael Hjälm; Bryan Spinks; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Syriac Orthodox liturgy; rite of entrance; ritual theory; Ronald Grimes; Victor Turner; liturgical studies; liturgics; liturgical history.; Kyrkovetenskap; Ecclesiology;

   Sammanfattning : Questions concerning sacred spaces and their relationship to ritual is of interest to historians of religion and others as well. How sacred spaces emerge and are constructed and what relationship they have to rituals are some of the areas that are dealt with in this study in relation to Syriac Orthodox liturgy. LÄS MER

5. 9. From Rural Gift to Urban Commodity : Traditional Medicinal Knowledge and Socio-spatial Transformation in the Eastern Lake Victoria Region

   Författare :Ouma Anne; Gunnar Malmberg; Aina Tollefsen; Linda Helgesson; Stacey Langwick; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Eastern Lake Victoria Region; Traditional Medicinal knowledge; Traditional Healers; Youth; Inter-generational learning processes; commodification and commercialization; gift; Socio-spatial transformation; rural-urban; gender; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : As we celebrate all the dynamic and dramatic improvements in human health care in the 21st century, life in much of Africa begins with and is sustained with the support of traditional medicinal knowledge. Research on traditional medicinal knowledge (TMK) is extensive, but rather few studies have been written about Traditional Healers' (THs') own perceptions about TMK and practices in relation to changing societal dynamics. LÄS MER

7. 10. A língua de Camões com Iemanjá : Forma e funções da linguagem do candomblé

   Författare :Laura Alvarez López; Lars Fant; Klaus Zimmermann; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Brazilian Portuguese; Afro-Bahian culture and speech varieties; ethnography of communication; ethnolinguistic vitality; linguistic attitudes and ideologies; relationship to creolization; language and identity; lexicology; Romance languages; Romanska språk;

   Sammanfattning : The present thesis addresses the relationship between the structure and social functions of language through the study of an Afro-Brazilian Portuguese speech community. The adopted methodological, analytical, and theoretical standpoints have their origin in linguistic anthropology, social psychology of language and discourse analysis. LÄS MER