Sökning: "rites of passage"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden rites of passage.

  1. 1. 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. 2. Ceremoniernas makt : Maktöverföring och genus i Vasatidens kungliga ceremonier

    Författare :Malin Grundberg; Olle Ferm; Svante Norrhem; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Early modern history; the Vasa period; royal ceremonies; coronations; royal funerals; ritual; rites of passage; ritual interaction; gender; masculinity; femininity; unmanliness; state formation; power legitimation; invented tradition; Gustav Vasa; Erik XIV; Johan III; Gustav II Adolf; Queen Kristina; Karl X Gustav; History subjects; Historieämnen;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies the royal ceremonies of the Vasa era in Sweden. The ceremonies connected with two Swedish monarchs – Erik XIV and Queen Kristina – is examined. From the sixteenth century I study Gustav Vasa’s funeral 1560, Erik XIV’s coronation 1561, Erik’s deposition 1568/69 and his brother Johan’s coronation 1569. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Krigarna i Odins sal : Dödsföreställningar och krigarkult fornnordisk religion

    Författare :Andreas Nordberg; Ulf Drobin; Anders Hultgård; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Othin; Valhall; war; warband; aristocracy; aristocratic hall; the afterlife; burial customs; Hel; History of Religion; religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : The crucial question in this study concerns the relationship between the motifs of Valhall and Othin in the epically worked out myths, and the more vague and intuitive religious beliefs. Archaeological remains as well as Old Norse literature constitute the source material. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Att berätta en senneolitisk historia : Sten och metall i södra Sverige 2350-1700 f. Kr

    Författare :Eva Stensköld; Mats Burström; Björn Magnusson Staaf; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Late Neolithic; Flint daggers; Neolithic metal; Mortuary houses; Gallery graves; Passage rituals; Mortuary rituals; Initiation rites; Body modification; Decarnation; Narrative; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses aspects of how the Late Neolithic society in southern Sweden changed through the use of metal. Particular focus is on how the different categories of the material culture were utilized in this process – the Late Neolithic flint daggers and objects of stone imitating objects of metal. LÄS MER

  7. 5. "Me voy pal Norte" : La configuración del sujeto migrante indocumentado en ocho novelas hispanoamericanas actuales (1992-2009)

    Författare :Fredrik Olsson; Andrea Castro; Ken Benson; José Manuel Camacho Delago; Anna Forné; Raúl Bueno; University of Gothenburg; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Latin American literature; undocumented migration; borders; migrant subject; identity; difference; intercultural contact; hybridity; intersectionality; the myth of the Promised Land; rites of territorial passage; Spanish literature; Spanska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores the representation of the undocumented migrant in the contemporary Latin American novel. Clandestine crossings have long been a theme in Mexican and Chicano literature, often narrated from a highly nationalistic working-class stance, but it is here argued that recent literary production on this problematic is significantly more heterogeneous. LÄS MER