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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 36 avhandlingar innehållade orden Non-Christian religions.
11. American Medina: A Study of the Sunni Muslim Immigrant Communities in Chicago
Sammanfattning : Sunni Muslims have immigrated to and lived in Chicago for more than a hundred years. In her book Schmidt seeks, on basis of two periods of extended fieldwork, to provide a description of some activist strata of these religious communities. LÄS MER
12. The Islamization of Science: Four Muslim Positions Developing an Islamic Modernity
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses a contemporary debate on the Islamization of science. The four persons discussed here are individuals belonging to a Muslim intellectual elite: the French convert and physician Maurice Bucaille, the Persian-American scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the British-Pakistani author Ziauddin Sardar and the Arab-American scholar Ismail Raji al-Faruqi. LÄS MER
13. Not Just Any Water : Hinduism, Ecology and the Ganges Water Controversy
Sammanfattning : Whether the Ganges river in Varanasi (India) is pristinely pure or heavily polluted depends on by whom it qualities are defined, the Brahmin religious specialists in the city or the science oriented environmentalists. While the controversy continues, some Hindu religious leaders are searching for ways to adjust their respective traditions to the environmental paradigms, an initiative that reflects a larger global religious trend. LÄS MER
14. Seger åt Tibet! : den tibetanska diasporan och den religiösa nationen
Sammanfattning : This dissertation in anthropology of religion focuses on images of Tibet, among Westerners as well as among Tibetans. Based on approximately one year of fieldwork in the former British Hill station, it also deals with the politics of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) and some of its political and social implications for the exiled Tibetan youth living in Dharamsala, India. LÄS MER
15. Breaking the Pot: Contextual Responses to Survival Issues in Malaysian Churches
Sammanfattning : Protestantism in Malaysia is in many cases the result of labour migration from China and India in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Under the British colonial administration, it enjoyed a certain degree of protection. LÄS MER