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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade orden HUMANITIES and RELIGION History and philosophy subjects History subjects History.
11. Mobile Performances : A Philosophical Account of Linguistic Undecidability as Possibility and Problem in the Theology of Religion
Sammanfattning : How to judge religions other than one's own when the means are lacking due to linguistic mobility? In the present thesis this question is mainly analysed in a Christian setting through a reading of the theologians Paul Knitter and Harold Netland. It is, however, claimed that the same question could be asked in other religious settings, also with regard to one's own tradition, and could be treated as a general question?how to judge, evaluate, and criticise religion if the means to do that are lacking? The thesis starts by maintaining that the question of linguistic mobility/stability is an issue in theology. LÄS MER
12. Two Quests for Unity : John Dewey, R. G. Collingwood, and the Persistence of Idealism
Sammanfattning : After having dominated philosophical thought in Britain and the United States during the end of the nineteenth century, idealism was in steady decline by the outbreak of World War I. Its ideas and ideals seemed unsuited to face the transition from Victorianism to modernism and the rapid social changes of the post-war era. LÄS MER
13. Psykets laboratorium : Skildringar av drogexperiment i Weimarrepubliken
Sammanfattning : Psykets laboratorium – skildringar av drogexperiment i Weimarrepubliken investigates texts produced during psychiatric self-experiments with psychedelic drugs in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s, featuring the philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) as a research subject. In these self-experiments, physicians and volunteer subjects wrote down their experiences of psychotic states that were evoked through the use of psychedelic drugs. LÄS MER
14. Gustav III - en upplysningskonungs tro och kyrkosyn
Sammanfattning : King Gustav III has often been viewed for his cultural interests and not least for the political engagement. Regarding religion he has usually been judged as indifferent and almost disrespectful. Based on extant historical sources, this dissertation questions this received understanding of the King's attitudes towards religion. LÄS MER
15. Det villkorade tillståndet : Centralförbundet för Socialt Arbete och liberal politisk rationalitet 1901–1921
Sammanfattning : This is a dissertation about Swedish liberalism as a political rationality and, more specifically, the conditions that made the transition from an exclusionary society to an inclusive one possible at the beginning of the 20th century. I have made a case study of National Association of Social Work (Centralförbundet för Socialt Arbete, CSA), an association that played a significant role in the institutionalization of social politics in Sweden. LÄS MER