Sökning: "Anthropology of Christianity"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden Anthropology of Christianity.

  1. 1. Contested Belonging : An Indigenous Peoples Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan

    Författare :B G Karlsson; Socialantropologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Rabha; anthropology; indigenous people; forest; wildlife conservation; India; ethnic mobilisation and Christian conversion.; cultural identity; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the modern predicament of the Rabha or Kocha people, their survival in the forest and their quest for identity. Rabhas are one of India's indigenous or tribal people, and they live in the jungle tracts where the Himalayan mountains meet the plains of Bengal. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Conserving the American Dream : Faith and Politics in the U.S. Heartland

    Författare :Erik Nilsson; Gudrun Dahl; Matthew Engelke; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; United States; conservatism; political activism; Christianity; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : Recent decades have seen substantial changes in the U.S. political landscape. One particularly significant development has been the growing influence of a conservative coalition encompassing evangelical Christianity, interventionist foreign policy and neoliberal reform. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Early Christian Determinism : A Study of The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate

    Författare :Paul Linjamaa; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Tripartite Tractate; Determinism; Christian Ethics; Free Will; Origen of Alexandria; Nag Hammadi Texts; Valentinianism; Emotions; Ancient Epistemology; Early Alexandrian Christianity;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to explore the ethics of the Nag Hammadi text, The Tripartite Tractate. This text, the fifth tractate in Nag Hammadi Codex I, has received comparatively little attention, although it is the most detailed Valentinian treaty still extant. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Having head and showing knowledge : language shift, Christianity and notions of self in a Papua New Guinean village

    Författare :Don Kulick; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Socialantropologi; Etnografi; Papua; Nya Guinea;

    Sammanfattning : In the swampy jungles of northern Papua New Guinea lies an isolated little villagepopulated by about 100 people called Gapun. The majority of the villagers of Gapun are biormultilingual, but their mother tongue is a vernacular language which they call Taiap. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Walking on the Pages of the Word of God : Self, Land, and Text Among Evangelical Volunteers in Jerusalem

    Författare :ARON ENGBERG; Mika Vähäkangas; James S. Bielo; Simon Coleman; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Agency; Anthropology of Christianity; Christian ZIonism; Evangelicalism; Identity; Israel; Language Ideology; Literalism; Materiality; Mediation; Narrative; Sacred Space; Volunteering;

    Sammanfattning : During the last thirty years, the Evangelical relationship with the State of Israel has drawn much academic and popular attention, particularly from historical, theological, and political perspectives. This dissertation engages with this literature but also complements it with an ethnographic account of the discursive practices of Evangelical Zionists through which, it is suggested, much of the religious significance of the contemporary state is being produced. LÄS MER