Sökning: "Jan-Åke Alvarsson"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden Jan-Åke Alvarsson.

  1. 1. Negotiating Involuntary Resettlement : A study of local bargaining during the construction of the Zimapán dam

    Författare :Inga-Lill Aronsson; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Lucia Ann McSpadden; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Mexico; resettlement; displacement; peasants; negotiations; time; space; development; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation seeks to present and analyze the negotiation process between the Mexican Power Board (CFE) and the peasants of Ejido Vista Hermosa, who were displaced by the building of the Zimapán dam in central Mexico. I use these negotiations as a focal point to identify the strategies, the reasoning, the priorities, and the conflicts of interest of the two main actors in the resettlement project. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Visions of Apostolic Mission : Scandinavian Pentecostal Mission to 1935

    Författare :David Bundy; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Church history; Kyrkohistoria;

    Sammanfattning : Using methods of Cultural Mapping, Scandinavian Pentecostal publications and archival sources were examined regarding mission. Working toward “Apostolic Mission,” in addition to biblical texts Pentecostals used models adapted from the Pietist, Methodist, Baptist and especially the Holiness Revivals. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Outside the World : Cohesion and Deviation among Old Colony Mennonites in Bolivia

    Författare :Anna Sofia Hedberg; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Bengt G. Karlsson; Lars Hagborg; Simon Coleman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Cultural anthropology; Old Colony Mennonites; community; social cohesion; boundary maintenance; margins; trans-cultural interaction; deviation; anthropology of religion; migration; Bolivia; Kulturantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : This study is about community maintenance and social cohesion among Old Colony Mennonites in Bolivia. The Old Colony Mennonites constitute a Christian minority that traces its origin to the European Anabaptist movement of the 16th century. LÄS MER

  5. 4. "Walking in the Spirit" : The Complexity of Belonging in Two Pentecostal Churches in Durban, South Africa

    Författare :Kristina Helgesson; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Lars Hagborg; Rijk van Dijk; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; Pentecostalism; phenomenology; belonging; South Africa; time; space; home; gender; hope; fear; balance; control; apartheid; anthropology of religion; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology; kulturantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : Drawing on anthropological fieldwork carried out in the two Pentecostal congregations Red Hill and Olive Tree in Durban, South Africa, this dissertation discusses the complexity of the experience of belonging among the members. Red Hill is a ‘coloured’ congregation, while Olive Tree is ‘white’; a fact that in present-day South Africa still is of significance for the experience of belonging. LÄS MER

  7. 5. African Women and Religious Change: A study of the Western Igbo of Nigeria with a special focus on Asaba town

    Författare :Victoria O. Ibewuike; Sven-Erik Brodd; Anita Jacobson-Widding; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Missionary studies; Asaba; women; traditional religion; Catholic Church; Africa; Missionsvetenskap; Missionary studies; Missionsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study focuses on a small ethnic group in the western part of Igboland called Asaba. It describes how the religious and socio-political role of women has changed, due to colonialism, modernisation, Western education and Christianity, which were brought by the groups of Europeans and Americans, who penetrated Africa in the nineteenth century. LÄS MER