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  1. 21. Der lange Weg des Zen-Buddhismus nach Deutschland : vom 16. Jahrhundert bis Rudolf Otto

    Författare :Jürgen Offermanns; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; J.-B. Du Halde; F. Caron; F.M. de Marsy; I. Kant; G.W. Leibniz; A. Kircher; Counter-Reformation; Reformation; Age of Enlightenment; travel literature; Jesuit theater; Germany; Europe; China; Japan; Jesuits; New Age; Christianity; West; Zen; Buddhism; sodo; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia; German language and literatur; Tyska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : At the beginning of the 21st Century, Zen Buddhism is no longer an unknown religion in the West. Zen-meditation enjoys great popularity, the books regarding the subject are among the bestsellers and the auditoriums are crowed if the topic concerns the bringing home of Zen Buddhism to a Western audience. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Patterns of Destiny : Hindu Nāḍī Astrology

    Författare :Martin Gansten; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Candrakalanadi; Devakerala; Gurunadi; Dhruvanadi; Amsanadi; karman; karma; predestination; free will; fate; purusakara; daiva; divination; astrology; jyotihsastra; jyotisa; Nadi; Hindu astrology; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Sammanfattning : Like all divination, Hindu astrology (jyotisa) is concerned with central religious issues such as man’s relation to the world, moral responsibility, and the revelation of a coherent divine order underlying human experience. Comprising a descriptive as well as a prescriptive aspect, jyotisa allows for both prediction and the exercise of free will. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Your Cradle Is Green : The Islamic Foundation and the Call to Islam in Children's Literature

    Författare :Torsten Janson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; discourse; genealogy; Manzir Ahsan; Khurshid Ahmad; Khurram Murad; Jama‘at-i-Islami; Islamisation; dialogue; inter-faith; minority; revivalism; migration; R.E.; religious education; publication; Britain; children’s literature; Islamic; Islamic Foundation; Islam; da‘wa; creolisation; modernity; critique; Islamism; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the conceptualisation of da‘wa, ‘the call to Islam’, of the British organisation the Islamic Foundation, and focuses its 25 years of publication of Islamic-English children’s literature. In order to analyse the implications of the new modalities of da‘wa in the late modern Muslim minority context, the present study applies a genealogical perspective. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Not Just Any Water : Hinduism, Ecology and the Ganges Water Controversy

    Författare :Sidsel Hansson; Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ecology; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Hinduism Ganges river Religious change Environmental awareness; Non-Christian religions; Ekologi; Environmental health; Miljömedicin;

    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

  7. 25. Seger åt Tibet! : den tibetanska diasporan och den religiösa nationen

    Författare :Åse Piltz; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Non-Christian religions; Rangzen.; Miss Tibet; Bod Gyalo; Shangri-la; Nationalism; Diaspora; Dalai Lama; Government-in-exile; Dharamsala; Refugees; Identity; Anthropology of religion; Tibet; Buddhism; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper;

    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