Sökning: "Legitimacy of ritual"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden Legitimacy of ritual.
1. Ceremoniernas makt : Maktöverföring och genus i Vasatidens kungliga ceremonier
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
2. Sacrifice and Symbol : Biblical Shelamim in a Ritual Perspective
Sammanfattning : For the sacrifice shelamim in the Hebrew Bible, scholars have suggested a number of different interpretations and uses. This sacrifice also had an ambiguous role in Israelite culture. LÄS MER
3. American Dervish: Making Mevlevism in the United States of America
Sammanfattning : In the late 1970s, the Turkish Mevlevi Sufi sheikh Süleyman Dede arrived from Konya, Turkey, in the United States. There he initiated a number of individuals primarily belonging to American esoteric groups as sheikhs in the Mevlevi order, known in Euro-America as the whirling dervishes. LÄS MER
4. The Vulnerable Power of Worship A Study of a Power Approach to Contextualization in Christian Mission
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the process of contextualizing the Christian discourse with a specific focus on worship and power negotiation. The study is based on literature, interviews and approximately six months of fieldwork in the U.S. in the years 1996,1998, and 2004. LÄS MER
5. Dazzling Dining : Banquets as an Expression of Imperial Legitimacy
Sammanfattning : This study examines how banquets hosted by the Roman emperor were vehicles of imperial propaganda and expressions of the ruler’s political legitimation. The focus will be on the banquets held in the palace of Domus Augustana in Rome and in the Great Palace in Constantinople during the period AD 330-580. LÄS MER