Sökning: "divination"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade ordet divination.

  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. The Birth of Religion among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau

    Författare :Inger Callewaert; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Herbal medicine 3.Modernisation; Divination; Ritual songs; Witchcraft; Ritual; Prophetic movement; Ancestor cult; Anthropology of Religion; Balanta 2.History of Religions; 1.West Africa; Guinea-Bissau; Gender; Theology; Teologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with a recent event within the history of religions, the rise and development of a non-Christian prophetic movement named Kiyang-yang within the oral, kinship and ancestor based society of the Balanta in Guinea-Bissau. Kiyang-yang is headed by young women and men under the leadership of a woman prophet. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Tarot : New age i bild och berättelse

    Författare :Magnus Gudmundsson; Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; science faith; rational irrational; rituals; motion; movements; discourse; cultural reserves; illustrations; narration; intertextuality; text; divination; new age; tarot; individual experience; religious beliefs; Theology; Teologi;

    Sammanfattning : In the course of my dissertation work, I have sought knowledge about what New Age is, contains, and conveys by looking at practice and rhetoric, how the participants act and reason regarding their commitment, as well as how the contents of the field is discussed. I have put an emphasis on the small details: the objects, the rituals, and the narrating. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The birds in the Iliad. Identities, interactions and functions

    Författare :Karin Johansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ancient ornithology; birds; bird symbolism; divination; double motivation; divine intervention; Homer s Iliad; identity; messenger; metaphorical utterances; oral tradition; parallelism; semiotics; species interactions; transformation; transmitter; Trojan war;

    Sammanfattning : As the topic of this study embraces and entwines what is routinely divided into two separate categories, “nature” and “culture”, the birds in the Iliad challenge modern scientific division and in some ways, our thinking. They are simultaneously birds, signs and symbols. LÄS MER