Sökning: "Erik Af Edholm"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Erik Af Edholm.
1. Satanic Feminism : Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Sammanfattning : Enligt Bibeln var Eva först med att lyssna till ormen och äta av den förbjudna frukten. Tanken på kvinnan som Satans utvalda är framträdande under stora delar av kristendomens historia. Under 1800-talet kom feminister att börja läsa denna misogyna tradition motvalls. LÄS MER
2. The Buddhist World Emperor's Mission : Millenarian Buddhism in Postcolonial Burma
Sammanfattning : In early postcolonial Burma, a number of so-called royal esoteric associations with a millenarian and eschatological orientation, and founded by persons believed to be the world emperor, emerged in response to political turmoil, nation-building projects, modernization, and after-effects of colonialism. These Theravāda Buddhist esoteric congregations, revivalist and innovative at the same time, were indicative of a general crisis of authority and identity. LÄS MER
3. Solbadets Buddha : Buddhism och teosofi i Ellen Keys Livstro
Sammanfattning : The thesis analyzes the spiritual teaching developed by Ellen Key, which she called Life Faith (Swedish: Livstro), situating it in the broader history of religions and concerns characteristic of Key’s time. Specifically, it investigates Key’s interest in Buddhism and Theosophy by drawing on recent scholarship on alternative and esoteric spiritual movements in the late 1800s to contextualize her ideas, demonstrating how Key's Life Faith was nourished by German idealism, Romanticism, and the so-called Oriental Renaissance. LÄS MER
4. Götisk kabbala och runisk alkemi : Johannes Bureus och den götiska esoterismen
Sammanfattning : Gothicism in general, and the Swedish Gothicism in particular, had a close connection to the esoteric currents that were flourishing all over Europe in the Early Modern Period. Apocalyptic predictions and prophecies useful to Gothic propaganda were derived from contemporary esoteric streams, but alongside these came Hermetic and Neo-Platonic speculations of a more individual character that emphasized man’s gradual ascension toward a higher state. LÄS MER
5. The Birth of a Heruka : How Sangs rgyas rgyal mtshan became gTsang smyon Heruka: A Study of a Mad Yogin
Sammanfattning : gTsang smyon Heruka (1452–1507) is one of Tibet’s most famous mad yogins. The mad yogins represent a relatively unknown aspect of Tibetan Buddhism that flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries. LÄS MER
