Sökning: "Religion and America"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden Religion and America.

1. 1. American Dervish: Making Mevlevism in the United States of America

   Författare :Simon Sorgenfrei; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sufism; Mevlevi Sufism; Esotericism; Performance; Ritual; Islam; Women and Religion; Rumi; Mevlevi Order of America; Sufism;

   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

3. 2. Havrefolket. Studier i befolknings- och marknadsutveckling på Dalboslätten 1770-1930

   Författare :Erik Hallberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; modern history; Dalsland; Sweden; north-western Europe; agricultural revolution; demographic transi- tion; population growth; enclosure; market; long depression; depopulation; land reclamation; capital accumulation; fertility; proletarianisation; migration; religion;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis the relationship between the rapid demographic and economic development of agrarian Sweden during the 19th century is investigated. The area in focus is the Dalbo plain in the province of Dal in western Sweden. In the 19th century, land was reclaimed to a great extent in the area. LÄS MER

4. 3. Cultivating the Sacred : Ritual Creativity and Practice among Women in Contemporary Europe

   Författare :Åsa Trulsson; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; dance; sacred places; authority; pilgrimage; power; intersubjectivity; somatic modes of attention; the body; embodiment; habitus; goddess spirituality; new age; paganism; practice; ritual criticism; multi-sited fieldwork; ritual; anthropology of religion; performance; music; healing; gender; sacralisation; everyday spirituality;

   Sammanfattning : Ritual creativity may seem like a contradiction in terms, yet the religious landscape in contemporary Euro-America is permeate with experimentation of ritual forms, different modalities of action, imagination and play as routes to authenticity. The present study examines different settings in Europe involved in such ritual creativity, which would commonly be classified as postmodern spirituality, new age or Paganism. LÄS MER

5. 4. David Nyvall and the shape of an immigrant church : ethnic, denominational, and educational priorities among Swedes in America

   Författare :Scott E. Erickson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Church history; Kyrkohistoria;

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7. 5. D. L. Moody and Swedes : Shaping Evangelical Identity among Swedish Mission Friends 1867–1899

   Författare :David M. Gustafson; Kjell O. Lejon; Runar Eldebo; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Moody; Dwight; Swedes; Swedish; Mission; Friends; American; revivalism; free; Covenant; church; immigration; evangelical; identity; Chicago; ethnic; Alliance; Franson; Church history; Kyrkohistoria;

   Sammanfattning : The American Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) was the most famous revivalist of the late 1800s and exercised a wide and lasting influence on the Protestant world, reaching Swedes in Sweden and America. LÄS MER